Scottish Highland Athletes Toss the Caber Posted 2006-08-03T23:33:00+00:00 - Updated 1998-07-13T11:00:00+00:00 This past weekend the 43rd Scottish Highland Games wrapped up on Grandfather Mountain.

Rob Von Bargen, 25, of Massapequa competes in the caber toss during the 56th annual Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.

Hungarians to toss the caber BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Every Hungarian's dream has come true as the country prepares for its first-ever Scottish Highland Games.

Large, muscular men wearing kilts and performing amazing feats of strength and agility in athletic competition celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture — that’s the Highland Games. The events that ...

The Central Florida Scottish Highland Games certainly had plenty of kilts, haggis for lunch, Scottish cattle, bagpipes, and caber tossing. For newcomers to unusual sports, caber tossing involves ...

Shot putt - One of the oldest events and traditionally contested using a heavy, round stone. Most putts today are an iron ball weighing 16lbs (7kg) or 22lbs (10kg) ...

This archive footage shows Geoff Capes struggling to control the caber toss and stewards running away in fear at the Highland Games in 1981 attended by members of the royal family. He has sadly ...

The 58th annual Spokane Highland Games brought together athletes competing in the caber toss, the hammer throw and weight above a bar, among others. Clans ...

A teenager from the Highlands has set a new world record for tossing the caber. Andrew Murphie, 18, from Grantown-on-Spey, managed to toss 26 cabers in three minutes - smashing the previous record ...