Glencoe mountains, Argyll
Height: Bidean nam Bian 3773 feet, Beinn Fhada 3054 feet, Aonach Dubh 2972 feet and Sgorr nam Fiannaidh 3172 feet
Glencoe is internationally famous for its amazing landscape and its natural and cultural heritage. It is a place of towering and spectacular mountains, an environment for diverse and rare wildlife and the site of a famous yet tragic event in Scotland’s history.
Glencoe is a steep-sided valley climbing steadily south east from the village of Glencoe on the shores of Loch Leven. It eventually emerges from its mountain landscape on to the very wet and boggy Rannoch Moor over 10 miles away and at an altitude of over 1000 feet.
The Glencoe mountains contain some of the oldest sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the world but the effects of glaciation and millions of years and many cycles of erosion have subsequently carved and worn them away into the formation seen today.
Glencoe is bounded on its northern side by the famous Aonach Eagach or “notched ridge”, a pinnacled and very narrow ridge linking three peaks over 3000 feet which stretches for over three miles.
On the southern side, there is a range of magnificent mountains comprising the “Three Sisters” of Beinn Fhada, Gearr Aonach and Aonach Dubh plus Bidean nam Bian whose summit sits behind the three protruding buttresses.
Glencoe is best know for an event that took place here at 5am on the morning of 13 February 1692, the massacre of the MacDonald clan.
Date: 6th June 2007
Location: view from the A82 road before the descent through Glen Coe
Glencoe is internationally famous for its amazing landscape and its natural and cultural heritage. It is a place of towering and spectacular mountains, an environment for diverse and rare wildlife and the site of a famous yet tragic event in Scotland’s history.
Glencoe is a steep-sided valley climbing steadily south east from the village of Glencoe on the shores of Loch Leven. It eventually emerges from its mountain landscape on to the very wet and boggy Rannoch Moor over 10 miles away and at an altitude of over 1000 feet.
The Glencoe mountains contain some of the oldest sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the world but the effects of glaciation and millions of years and many cycles of erosion have subsequently carved and worn them away into the formation seen today.
Glencoe is bounded on its northern side by the famous Aonach Eagach or “notched ridge”, a pinnacled and very narrow ridge linking three peaks over 3000 feet which stretches for over three miles.
On the southern side, there is a range of magnificent mountains comprising the “Three Sisters” of Beinn Fhada, Gearr Aonach and Aonach Dubh plus Bidean nam Bian whose summit sits behind the three protruding buttresses.
Glencoe is best know for an event that took place here at 5am on the morning of 13 February 1692, the massacre of the MacDonald clan.
Date: 6th June 2007
Location: view from the A82 road before the descent through Glen Coe
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