🗺️ NC500 Attractions

Stac Pollaidh (pronounced "Stack Polly") is one of the most immediately recognisable and photographed mountains in Scotland — a compact, steep-sided peak with a wildly jagged pinnacled ridge, rising sharply from the flat Coigach moorland above Loch Lurgainn. At 612 metres it is not a Munro, but the walk to its summit ridge is one of the most dramatic short hill walks in the co…

Suilven is perhaps the most dramatically distinctive mountain in Scotland — a great sugar-loaf dome of Torridonian sandstone rising 731 metres almost vertically from the surrounding bogland of Assynt. From every direction it presents a different profile: from the west, a rounded dome; from the east, a sharp spike; from …

The Torridon mountains are among the most ancient and dramatic peaks in Britain. The great ridges of Liathach, Beinn Eighe and Beinn Alligin are formed from Torridonian sandstone deposited 750 million …