25 highland beinn à chaorainn

Hidden far from the roadside, the Cairngorms ’ most remarkable Munro yields to a surprisingly easy ascent.

■Distance: 10 miles/16.1km ■ Time: 7 hours ■ Grade: Challenging

DIFFICULTY MEDIUM DISTANCE 20KM TIME 7 ...

If you REALLY want to know Scotland’s mountains, you need to add The Fionas to your peak-bagging hit-list – starting with BEN MOR COIGACH .

A walkable ridge that climbs the entire height of a mountain is the stuff of dreams. Hidden away to the south of Glen Coe, BEN STARAV is the mountain that makes that dream come true.

The Cuillin Ridge is often regarded as Britain’s most sustained and technical mountaineering excursion. Co-editor David Lintern attempted a ‘walker’s traverse’ of this infamous challenge, supporting a friend’s Munro round. In an environment now largely professionalised, theirs was an adventure by amateurs in the classic sense