During the event local "guizers" throw their torches at a replica of a Viking long ship until it is consumed by flames.

Up Helly Aa transforms Lerwick in the Shetland Islands every January as over 1,000 torch-bearing Vikings march through the streets before burning a specially-built longship ...

After waiting for 18 years, a man from Shetland becomes a Viking chief that leads the famous Up Helly Aa festival.

On Scotland’s Shetland Islands, a fire festival called Up Helly Aa celebrates the region’s Norse heritage. It takes place ...

'Vikings' took to the streets in Shetland to celebrate the world-famous Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event takes place in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of January each year and attracts visitors from ...

Up Helly Aa - the biggest fire festival in Europe - is held on the last Tuesday in January in Shetland The spectacular annual ...

In spite of an impending thunderstorm, hundreds of heavily disguised torchbearers gathered on a remote Scottish island to ...

The amazing Up Helly Aa festival takes place in the Shetland Islands every January and sees more than 1,000 people turn out in Viking costumes to celebrate the region's Norse heritage ...

Up Helly Aa is held on the final Tuesday of January every year, and will see an army of more than 1,000 Viking warriors, known as the Jarl Squad, take to the streets.