Nigel's Photo Blog

(Above image is a capture of the Nevis Range in winter.) This evening, I am focusing on a Scottish mountain named Aonach Mor which is located about ten miles N.E. of  Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. This peak is part of the Grampian Mountains and the name translates into English as ‘big ridge’. Height is 1221 metres or 4006 feet and thus Aonach Mor ranks as a ‘Munro’ or one of the 282 mountains in Scotland exceeding 3000 feet. Aonach Mor also ranks as the eighth tallest peak in Britain. Ski run in winter  Mountain Gondola Aonach Mor has a gondola cable car lift up its northern face to transport sporting participants and sightseers near to the summit where there are shops and refreshment facilities. In winter the mountain’s northern slopes, known as the Nevis Range , are popular with skiers and snowboarders whilst in summer downhill mountain bikers take over. To date, Aonach Mor has hosted eighteen Mercedes-Ben...

This morning, as planned, I departed my overnight base in Glencoe and visited two snow sports centres; the first at Aonach Mor being about 8 miles N.E. of Fort William and the second at Glencoe Mountain Resort which is about 35 miles S.E. of Aonach Mor. This was a photo themed trip which proved entirely successful as I was very fortunate to benefit from near perfect light and weather conditions, very unusual at any time of the year in Scotland let alone in February. Because of the volume and range of images I will concentrate this evening on Aonoach Mor and follow with Glencoe tomorrow. Although not the subject of this post, it is worthy of mention that the village of Glencoe is remembered as the location of an infamous massacre in 1692 when around 90 members of the local MacDonald clan were killed (directly and indirectly) by a British army unit comprised of Campbells.This event has to be viewed in context of the complicated politics connected with the Jacobite uprising of th...