The Munros:
Ullapool, Ben Wyvis and the far north.
Ullapool, Ben Wyvis and the far north.
The Munros of Ullapool, Ben Wyvis and the far north, the highest first. See them on the map.
Beinn Dearg.
1,084 metres
Beinn Dearg, "the red mountain", stands near Ullapool in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel. Forestry and Land Scotland's forest at Inverlael lies below it, in the mountain's shadow.
Read about Beinn Dearg
Ben Wyvis - Glas Leathad Mor.
1,046 metres
Ben Wyvis, Bheinn Uais, stands on its own to the north of Inverness: a high whaleback ridge whose summit, Glas Leathad Mòr, is 1,046 metres.
Read about Ben Wyvis - Glas Leathad MorBen More Assynt.
999 metres
Ben More Assynt, 998.9 metres, is the higher of Assynt's two Munros, about 7 km east of Inchnadamph. Conival, the other, is under a mile away.
Read about Ben More AssyntConival.
988 metres
Conival, 987.6 metres, is one of Assynt's two Munros, above Inchnadamph. Ben More Assynt, the other, is under a mile away.
Read about ConivalCona' Mheall.
978 metres
Cona' Mheall stands beside Beinn Dearg in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel, near Ullapool. Beinn Dearg, the highest of its neighbours, is only about a kilometre and a half to the west.
Read about Cona' MheallMeall nan Ceapraichean.
977 metres
Meall nan Ceapraichean stands in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel, near Ullapool, with a Munro on three sides of it.
Read about Meall nan CeapraicheanBen Klibreck - Meall nan Con.
962 metres
Ben Klibreck is a hill on its own. Harvey Maps describes it as an isolated Munro south of Altnaharra, and its nearest fellow Munro, Ben Hope, is about 23 kilometres away to the north-west. The summit itself is called Meall nan Con.
Read about Ben Klibreck - Meall nan ConAm Faochagach.
953 metres
Am Faochagach stands in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel, above Loch Glascarnoch, where the dam was finished in 1957.
Read about Am FaochagachEididh nan Clach Geala.
927 metres
Eididh nan Clach Geala stands in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel, near Ullapool. It is the lowest of the four Munros around Beinn Dearg, and the other three all lie to its south.
Read about Eididh nan Clach GealaBen Hope.
927 metres
Ben Hope is Scotland's most northerly Munro, and it stands a long way from the rest. Its nearest Munro neighbour, Ben Klibreck, is about 23 kilometres to the south-east, and Ben More Assynt is about 34 to the south-west.
Read about Ben HopeSeana Bhraigh.
926 metres
Seana Bhraigh stands in the hills between Loch Broom and Strath Oykel. East Rhidorroch Estate, near Ullapool, counts it among the most remote Munros in the region, and describes a glen of waterfalls, woodland and lochs, with a bothy on the estate.
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