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Appendix A Alphabetical list of the Corbetts

Appendix B Useful information

FOREWORD BY LORD HAWORTH OF FISHERFIELD

Sweeping generalisations are best avoided, unless they contain an essential truth. Here is a sweeping generalisation which does just that – the best Corbetts are to be found north of the Great Glen.

This second volume of Walking the Corbetts covers Morvern, Sunart, Ardgour and Moidart where no Munros are to be found; but steep and dramatic Corbetts abound. Garbh Bheinn of Ardgour is one of the finest mountains in the Western Highlands and is as rough as its name implies. Sgurr Dhomhnuill, pointed and shapely, is the highest peak hereabouts. Sgurr Ghiubsachain, best seen from the Glenfinnan Monument, throws down a steep and inviting ridge to the edge of Loch Shiel; and the views from Beinn Resipol are among the finest on the western seaboard. Further north, in the area from Loch Eil to Glen Shiel, the long undulating ridge of Streap is a joy; Ben Aden is every bit as rocky and rough as the toughest Munros in the Rough Bounds of Knoydart and vies with Sgurr a’ Choire Bheithe as the least accessible. The latter was for many years regarded as a candidate as a possible undiscovered Munro. Now measured definitively with a huge degree of accuracy it remains, tantalisingly, at 913m – just missing the magic height for a Munro. However, surveyors supported by the Munro Society have recently discovered a new Corbett. Beinn a’ Chlaidheimh, in the Fisherfield Forest, has been found to be lacking vital inches and has returned to the fold of the Corbetts, having previously been promoted to a Munro. Are there more Munros to be demoted or Corbetts to be promoted to Munro status? Almost certainly not. As this volume goes to press all the marginal Munros and Corbetts have been surveyed to an accuracy of ±5cm, and there should be no more surprises.