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Millennia before Led Zeppelin, the Bible had a stairway to heaven in a famous story from the Book of Genesis.

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland Visitors must navigate Skellig Michael’s 618 steps both ways to see the ancient hermitage.

Fantastically flanked by oodles of adorable, clownish puffins lining my path, I’d soon climb Skellig Michael’s perilous 618-step “stairway to heaven” to explore 1,400-year-old stone ...

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland as part of the weeklong "Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry" trek.

(Photo by Norma Meyer) A magnificent otherworld awaited. Fantastically flanked by oodles of adorable, clownish puffins lining my path, I’d soon climb Skellig Michael’s perilous 618-step “stairway to ...