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This grander route is usually started from Glen Nevis. (Start as ssss1, Half Nevis; arriving at Allt a’ Mhuilinn, cross the stream and slant up left to join the rounded crest running up east to Carn Beag Dearg.) But this start from Torlundy keeps you mostly off the Mountain Track, and gives a gentler ascent of Carn Mor Dearg.

See Ben Nevis summit summary map. Start along the track, then on a wide path signed for Allt a’ Mhuilinn. It rises to cross the former aluminium tramway. A wide path slants up through the plantations, roughly south. The older route by the old tramway and Allt a’ Mhuilinn is prettier but is now disused and overgrown.

The path winds up through woods to meet a track. Keep on up the track, ignoring a side-track on the right, and as it bends left, cross a ladder stile ahead. A well-built path leads up to the left of Allt a’ Mhuilinn stream, with great views of crags ahead. After about 1km a small path forks off left to climb the broad spur of Carn Dearg Beag. It does not actually visit this first top but skirts to its right, running high along the slope, opposite the great northern crags on Nevis.