Icon of the Highlands

This desolate scene shows one view of the great Buachaille Etive Mòr, one of Scotland’s most iconic mountains, situated between the valleys of Glen Etive and Glen Coe in the Highlands. A ridge nearly five miles long, it is made up of four main peaks, the highest of which is the pyramid-shaped and much-photographed Stob Dearg, at 3,350ft (1,021m). If you’re wondering about that name, Buachaille Etive Mòr it is derived from the Scottish Gaelic for “the great herdsman of Etive”. Its sister mountain, Buachaille Etive Beag to the west, is known as the small herdsman.
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