http://munro-madness.com/category/gaelic/eag The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-gb http://munro-madness.com/hills/sgurr-nan-eag <p><a class="glossary-term" href="/category/gaelic/sg%C3%B2r"><acronym title="There's often confusion between sgòr & sgòrr. In all probability sgòr & sgòrr are varieties of sgùrr and the difference in spelling / pronunciation appears to be Gaelic dialect rather than type of hill. ">Sgurr</acronym></a> a'Mhadaidh is a [Munro] <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/105"><acronym title="The high point of a mountain or peak. Used as a verb to indicate that a person reached the top.">summit</acronym></a> on the Black Cuillin <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/168"><acronym title="an elongated mountain crest (usually narrow)">ridge</acronym></a>. Like the rest of the range it is composed of <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/418"><acronym title="Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt. It is a plutonic rock, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools into a crystalline mass. Gabbro is dense, greenish or dark-colored and contains pyroxene, plagioclase, amphibole, and olivine (olivine gabbro when olivine is present in large quantities).">gabbro</acronym></a>, a rock with excellent grip for mountaineering.</p> <p>The simplest <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/87"><acronym title="The path of a particular climb, or a predefined set of moves.">route</acronym></a> ascends via the <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/31"><acronym title="A small pass between two hills / peaks">col</acronym></a> of An Dorus (the Door), most easily reached from <a class="glossary-term" href="/glossary/term/367"><acronym title="long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped vally">Glen</acronym></a> Brittle. The mountain has four summits; only the highest can be reached by scramblers. The three lower summits require rock-climbing skills and equipment.</p> eag sgòr Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:10:51 +0000 Peter.Lord 527 at http://munro-madness.com