The Munros:
the Cairngorms.
The Cairngorms.
The Munros of the Cairngorms, the highest first. See them on the map.
Ben Macdui.
1,309 metres
Ben Macdui, 1,309 metres, is the second highest mountain in Britain and the highest in the Cairngorms National Park.
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Braeriach.
1,296 metres
Braeriach is the third highest mountain in Britain, and the second highest in the Cairngorms National Park. It stands above the Lairig Ghru, with Ben Macdui about four kilometres to the east and Sgor an Lochain Uaine and Cairn Toul close by to the south.
Read about BraeriachCairn Toul.
1,291 metres
Cairn Toul is the fourth highest Munro of all, and the second highest point in the western massif of the Cairngorms. Its neighbours are giants too: Braeriach is about three kilometres to the north and Ben Macdui about the same to the north-east.
Read about Cairn ToulSgor an Lochain Uaine.
1,258 metres
Sgòr an Lochain Uaine, 1,258 metres, is the fifth highest Munro and stands beside Cairn Toul in the Cairngorms.
Read about Sgor an Lochain UaineCairn Gorm.
1,245 metres
Cairn Gorm, in the Cairngorms National Park, is the sixth highest of the 282 Munros. From its summit the view runs across the Cairngorm plateau towards Ben Macdui, about five kilometres to the south, and Harvey's Cairn Gorm map names it among five summits over 4,000 feet.
Read about Cairn GormBeinn a' Bhuird.
1,196 metres
Beinn a' Bhuird is one of the big hills of the Cairngorms National Park, on the border of Aberdeenshire and Moray, and the eleventh highest of the 282 Munros. Its Munro summit is the North Top, and Ben Avon is its neighbour about four kilometres to the east.
Read about Beinn a' BhuirdBeinn Mheadhoin.
1,183 metres
Beinn Mheadhoin, 1,183 metres, stands in the Cairngorms, about two miles in a straight line from Cairn Gorm and under three from Ben Macdui.
Read about Beinn MheadhoinBen Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe.
1,172 metres
Ben Avon is a great sprawling plateau in the Cairngorms, stretching for miles and scattered with granite tors. One of those tors is the summit itself.
Read about Ben Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh BhuidheBeinn Bhrotain.
1,157 metres
Beinn Bhrotain is one of the twenty highest Munros, the nineteenth of the 282. It stands in the Aberdeenshire Cairngorms above Glen Geusachan, whose Gaelic name, Gleann Giùthsachain, means the glen of the little pine wood.
Read about Beinn BhrotainDerry Cairngorm.
1,156 metres
Derry Cairngorm is the twentieth highest of the 282 Munros, and it keeps high company. Ben Macdui is about three kilometres to the west and Beinn Mheadhoin a little further to the north.
Read about Derry CairngormSgor Gaoith.
1,116 metres
Sgor Gaoith stands on the Glen Feshie side of the Cairngorms National Park, and its summit is a perch: the hills database records it simply as ground on the edge of a crag. Those crags stand above Loch Einich, and Braeriach is about five kilometres away to the east.
Read about Sgor GaoithMonadh Mor.
1,113 metres
Monadh Mor stands in the Cairngorms above Glen Geusachan, on the boundary of Aberdeenshire and Highland. Beinn Bhrotain is its close neighbour, about two and a half kilometres to the south-east, and Cairn Toul, Sgor an Lochain Uaine and The Devil's Point are all within four kilometres.
Read about Monadh MorBynack More.
1,090 metres
Bynack More stands in the Cairngorms National Park, about four kilometres north-east of Cairn Gorm, with Beinn Mheadhoin and Beinn a' Chaorainn about five kilometres to the south. Forestry and Land Scotland looks after Glenmore Forest Park below it.
Read about Bynack MoreBeinn a' Chaorainn.
1,083 metres
Beinn a' Chaorainn stands in the Cairngorms, on the boundary of Aberdeenshire and Moray, above the Derry Burn. The burn's Gaelic name, Uisge an Doire, means the water of the copse.
Read about Beinn a' ChaorainnCarn a' Mhaim.
1,037 metres
Carn a' Mhaim stands in the Cairngorms National Park between Ben Macdui and Cairn Toul, with much higher hills on either hand. Each of those two is a little under four kilometres away, and The Devil's Point is closer still, about two kilometres to the west.
Read about Carn a' MhaimMullach Clach a' Bhlair.
1,019 metres
Mullach Clach a' Bhlair stands above Glen Feshie, in the Cairngorms. Its neighbours keep their distance: the nearest Munro, Monadh Mor, is about six kilometres to the east, and Sgor Gaoith nearly seven to the north.
Read about Mullach Clach a' BhlairThe Devil's Point.
1,007 metres
The Devil's Point stands over the Lairig Ghru, the old right of way through the Cairngorms between Deeside and Speyside. Close underneath it, less than a kilometre from the summit in a straight line, is Corrour Bothy, which the Mountain Bothies Association counts among the most famous of all bothies.
Read about The Devil's PointAn Sgarsoch.
1,007 metres
An Sgarsoch is one of the remote ones. It stands on the border of Aberdeenshire and Perth and Kinross, in the hills between Glen Tromie and Glen Tilt, with its twin Carn an Fhidhleir about three kilometres to the west.
Read about An SgarsochCarn an Fhidhleir.
994 metres
Carn an Fhidhleir is one of the remote ones. It stands on the borders of Aberdeenshire, Highland and Perth and Kinross, far from any public road, with its twin An Sgarsoch about three kilometres to the east and no other Munro within eight.
Read about Carn an FhidhleirBeinn Bhreac.
930 metres
Beinn Bhreac is one of the lower Munros of the Cairngorms, in Aberdeenshire, with much bigger hills for company. Derry Cairngorm is about four kilometres to the west, Beinn a' Chaorainn about four and a half to the north and Beinn a' Bhuird about five to the north-east.
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