I recently spent a little time in the Outer Hebrides. This was just my second ever visit. And the first was last year! The original purpose was to see if I could get out to the relatively remote St Kilda archipelago. Unfortunately, that did not materialize. So, looked Continue Reading
Quinag
This is the third of my blogs about climbs that I have undertaken in the north of Scotland this year. This blog is about Quinag. Quinag is a complex mountain with seven recognised summits of which three are Corbetts (Scottish hills of between 2500 feet and 3000 feet with at least 500 Continue Reading
Ben More Coigach
This is the second of my blogs about my trips to the north of Scotland this year. The previous one was about Cul Mor. This one is about Ben More Coigach (Gaelic – Beinn Mhor na Coigich). In Gaelic, Beinn (or Ben) Mhor (or Mor/More) just means ‘big hill’ or ‘mountain‘. Coigach is Continue Reading
Cul Mor
The north west of Scotland is quite unlike anywhere else in the UK. The mountains stand as monolithic sentinels above a scarred land dotted with blue lochs against the backdrop of a seaboard that looks as though it has been ripped by some giant hand. Those sentinels include Foinaven, Continue Reading
Volcanic Seven Summits – May 2024
I am able to report that there is another completer of the Volcanic Seven Summits on 15th May 2024. This is Russian Andrey Kravchenko. He completed the seven on Mount Giluwe as a part of a Seven Summits Club team. Here he is on the summit. Congratulations to him. The claimants' list is Continue Reading