Scotland's mountains

Featured mountains

Explore some of Scotland’s most iconic mountains using these pages featuring high quality photos, route information and interactive maps to provide a unique inspiration, guide and resource for each of these wonderful mountains. Explore these classics of the North West Highlands: An Teallach, Liathach, Beinn Eighe, Ben Hope, Foinaven and Arkle, and Sgurr na Ciche, Garbh Chioch Mhor and Sgurr nan Coireachan. These mountains are ones that I know well – they are amongst my favourite Scottish mountains, places that I have spent many inspiring and uplifting days.

Beinn Eighe from Ruadh-stac Beag on a Spring Evening, Torridon & Fisherfield

Beinn Eighe – Ruadh-stac Mor and Spidean Coire nan Clach

Beinn Eighe is more a mountain massif than a single mountain: it comprises of Munro summits Ruadh-stac Mor and Spidean ...

Spidean a' Choire Leith - Liathach from from Stuc a' Choire Dhuibh Bhig, Torridon & Fisherfield

Liathach – Spidean a’ Choire Leith and Mullach an Rathain

Liathach is a towering and shapely giant that dominates Glen Torridon in the heart of Wester Ross in the north ...

An Teallach

An Teallach is one of the British Isles most celebrated mountains; a series of peaks that occupy the imaginations of ...

Ben Hope at Dawn from Beinn Direach, Northern Sutherland

Ben Hope – the most northerly Munro

Ben Hope is famed as the most northerly Munro and is an iconic mountain of Sutherland and the far north ...

Winter Afternoon - Arkle & Foinaven from Ben Hope, Northern Sutherland

Foinaven and Arkle

Foinaven and its neighbour Arkle are amongst Scotland's finest and most starkly beautiful mountains. Foinaven is one of the highest ...

Sgurr na Ciche, Garbh Chioch Mhor and Sgurr nan Coireachan

Sgurr na Ciche, Garbh Chioch Mhor and Sgurr nan Coireachan are lofty, rough and remote Munros at the west end ...

Other mountains

I am building pages for further mountains, see the growing list of peaks below. My long term aim is to produce pages along these lines for many of Scotland’s mountains to provide a valuable reference resource and showcase the stunning nature of the Scottish mountains.