Garbh Chioch Bheag

Tucked away in the formidable ‘Rough Bounds’ of Knoydart, this rocky Munro Top sits on one of Scotland’s finest high-level ridges. Connecting the giants of Sgùrr na Cìche and Garbh Chioch Mhòr, the terrain is characteristically rugged, offering a hands-on scramble across shattered quartzite with dizzying drops into the remote Glen Kingie wild.

• •The name is Gaelic for 'Little Rough Breast', distinguishing it from its slightly higher neighbour, Garbh Chioch Mhòr, and the strikingly pointed Sgùrr na Cìche to the west.
• •A remarkably well-preserved drystone wall runs along the ridge summit; a testament to the staggering manual labour required to mark estate boundaries in such inaccessible, high-altitude terrain.
• •The summit offers a unique vantage point of the 'prow' of Sgùrr na Cìche, which looks its most architectural and intimidating from this eastern approach.
• •It is usually climbed as part of a long, demanding circuit from the road-end at Loch Arkaig, a route known for having some of the most convoluted and rock-strewn pathless sections in the Highlands.
• •For those counting summits, it serves as a brief, rocky exhale between two major Munros—though in Knoydart, even an 'exhale' usually involves a scramble and a search for a solid foothold.