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This is the highest and most complex mountain in Glencoe standing at 3771 feet (1150m), with multiple ridges that sprout nine individual summits. The loftiest top is bashfully concealed behind the monumental spurs of three of these ridges, The Three Sisters, which themselves form the most celebrated view in Scotland’s most revered glen. In fact, Bidean nam Bian comprises the whole southern side of the glen, from the curve of the A82 at Achnacon rising to the Glencoe Waterfalls at…

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The impact generated when sighting Buachaille Etive Mor is profound and permanent. It never wanes, however many times the traveller witnesses its rearing prow surging from the fringe of Rannoch Moor’s barren expanse. Nature has fashioned a mountain from a child’s sketchbook, whose accessibility to the passing motorist has bestowed upon it a Hollywood presence, and one that is wholly deserved as the ‘Buachaille’, to use its familiar stage name, warrants every inch of its celebrity. The mountain was well-known…

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