Forcan ridge, the saddle glen shiel scotland

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 .

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

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

DIFFICULTY MEDIUM DISTANCE 20KM TIME 7 ...

THE BIG RIDE

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