Glen Affric and Kintail

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Glen Affric and Kintail is an area in Scotland as defined by the SMC.

The area contains 2 regions called Five Sisters of Kintail & Glen Affric .

There are 22 munros around here.The highest munro is Carn Eige at a height of 1183 metres .The smallest munro is A'Ghlas-bheinn at a height of 918 metres .

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The rough peaks of Knoydart give way to the less wild and rocky, but no less steep peaks of Kintail, and further north in Glen Affric the character of the mountains is very different, many of them being higher and more expansive, with broad ridges and relatively gentle slopes.

The Five Sisters of Kintail, of which only three are Munros, are splendid peaks in the south-west corner of this area, rising in a single sweep above Loch Duich and the foot of Glen Shiel. To their east, and forming a continuation of the same high ridge, are three more Munros - Saileag, Sgurr a'Bhealaich Dheirg and Aonach Meadhoin - which together with the Five Sisters form a chain of peaks which is at least the equal of the South Glen Shiel ridge on the opposite side of the glen.

There is another similar range on the north side of Loch Cluanie. Ciste Dhubh is an isolated peak, to its east a'Chralaig and Mullach Fraoch-choire form a high ridge above Cluanie Inn and further east Sgurr nan Conbhairean and its two neighbours, Sail Chaorainn and Carn Ghluasaid, lie in a semicircle round the head of the River Doe. The mountains on the north side of Glen Affric start in the east with the modest Toll Creagach and its more impressive neighbour Tom a'Choinich.

A few kilometres west are the great twin mountains, Mam Sodhail and Carn Eighe, which are the highest north of the Great Glen, with their outliers Beinn Fhionnlaidh and An Socach. At the head of Glen Affric, Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan is one of the biggest mountains in Scotland, in terms of its area if not its height. It is a sprawling massif of many ridges, corries and peaks, including its outlying Munro, Mullach na Dheiragain. Finally, between the head of Glen Affric and Loch Duich is Beinn Fhada, well named the long hill, and its northern satellite a'Ghlas-bheinn.

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Order	Height	Munro	Grid Ref.
12	(1183 mt.)	Carn Eige	NH123262 OS View
14	(1181 mt.)	Mam Sodhail	NH120253 OS View
22	(1151 mt.)	Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan	NH057228 OS View
33	(1120 mt.)	A'Chralaig	NH094148 OS View
41	(1112 mt.)	Tom a'Choinich	NH164273 OS View
44	(1109 mt.)	Sgurr nan Conbhairean	NH129138 OS View
49	(1102 mt.)	Mullach Fraoch-choire	NH095171 OS View
70	(1067 mt.)	Sgurr Fhuaran	NG978166 OS View
77	(1054 mt.)	Toll Creagach	NH194282 OS View
96	(1036 mt.)	Sgurr a'Bhealaich Dheirg	NH035143 OS View
100	(1032 mt.)	Beinn Fhada	NH018192 OS View
105	(1027 mt.)	Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe	NG984149 OS View
128	(1005 mt.)	Beinn Fhionnlaidh (Glen Affric)	NH115282 OS View
133	(1002 mt.)	Sail Chaorainn	NH133154 OS View
134	(1002 mt.)	Sgurr na Carnach	NG977158 OS View
135	(1001 mt.)	Aonach Meadhoin	NH049137 OS View
167	(982 mt.)	Mullach na Dheiragain	NH080259 OS View
173	(979 mt.)	Ciste Dhubh	NH062166 OS View
203	(957 mt.)	Carn Ghluasaid	NH145125 OS View
205	(956 mt.)	Saileag	NH017148 OS View
270	(921 mt.)	An Socach [Glen Affric]	NH088230 OS View
275	(918 mt.)	A'Ghlas-bheinn	NH008230 OS View

Thumbnail	Price	Map Name
	£7.95	Kintail, Glenshiel (Superwalker)
	£5.59	Glen Carron and Glen Affric (Landranger Maps) (Landranger Maps)
	£6.99	Loch Alsh, Glen Shiel and Loch Hourn (Landranger Maps)
	£7.99	Glen Shiel and Kintail Forest (Explorer Maps)
	£7.99	Glen Affric and Glen Moriston (Explorer Maps)

Thumbnail	Price	Book Name
	£22.00	The Munros: Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers' Guide
	£11.52	Walking the Munros: Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms v. 2 (Cicerone British Mountains)
	£43.50	North-West Highlands, Hillwalkers' Guide (Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers Guides)