Beinn a' Chumhainn

Tucked away in the remote wilderness north of Loch Ossian, this high Lochaber mountain offers a quiet alternative to its busier neighbours. Its broad, mossy plateau and rounded profile provide a sense of immense scale and isolation, overlooking the deep waters of Loch Treig and the surrounding trackless glens.

• •The Gaelic name Beinn a' Chumhainn translates as the 'Hill of the Narrowness', likely a reference to the constrained pass of the Allt na Lairige which runs along its eastern flank.
• •The summit provides a grandstand view of the Easains—Stob Coire Easain and Stob a' Choire Mheadhoin—rising sharply across the deep valley of Loch Treig to the west.
• •Despite its impressive 901.9-metre height, it sits in the shadow of the nearby Munros, often resulting in a summit that visitors can have entirely to themselves even in the height of summer.
• •Accessing the hill usually involves the West Highland Line; walkers alight at Corrour, the UK’s highest and most remote railway station, before heading north into the pathless moorland.
• •Its classification as a Tump—a hill with a thirty-metre drop on all sides—is a mathematically correct label that fails to capture the physical reality of its nearly 3,000-foot ascent.