25 highland braeriach

You don’t need all day to have a big adventure, as this Holy Mountain proves.

■ Distance: 7½ miles/12km ■ Time: 4-5 hours ■ Grade: Challenging

The coldest place in Britain is also one of the most beautiful, as this winter walk in the sub-arctic hills of the Cairngorms proves.

Twenty-five years ago, large chunks of Eryri’s Aran range were out of bounds. That all changed in 2000. To celebrate a quarter-century of the legislation that changed the game, Trail set out to walk the entire ridge… unobstructed.

Some mountains live up to their names better than others. BEN MORE is one that certainly does, but first we need some disambiguation: exactly which Ben More are we talking about?

■ Distance: 6 miles/9.7km ■ Time: 2½-3hours ■ Grade: Easy