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For confident scramblers it’s a feasible descent route, provided you start from the correct cairn on Carn Dearg – coming from Ben Nevis it’s the second one, at 1214m (NN 1585 7210).

See Ben Nevis summit summary map. Start as for ssss1, onto the path beside Allt a’ Mhuilinn. Carry on up this path, which is well built up to the stream junction below the CIC Hut. Cross one stream to reach the hut.

From here, the way up ahead into Number 5 Gully should be visible. Directly opposite the hut, ascend a steep bank above the stream onto the toe of a long slope of gentle slabs. These can be walked up, with perhaps a little scrambling if wet. The slabs run up to big boulders at the foot of the imposing Carn Dearg Buttress. Here turn left up the crag base, then straight up on rough scree paths alongside the crag, into Number 5 Gully.

Number 5 Gully and Carn Dearg Buttress, Ben Nevis

Clamber up the bouldery gully bed with stream for 100 metres. Above here, the gully steepens, divides, and becomes gently rocky; don’t continue up it, but head to the right up a grassy terrace onto a gentle but somewhat exposed slab. This is ascended on the footholds provided by a crack slanting right.