Base camp

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 .

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

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

CÀRN MÒR DEARG, HIGHLAND, 1220M

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.

BIDEAN NAM BIAN, HIGHLAND, 1150M