Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh

About Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh

Sgorr nam Fiannaidh, at 967 metres, is the higher of the two Munro summits on the Aonach Eagach, the notched ridge that forms the northern wall of Glen Coe. The other is Meall Dearg at 952 metres, and the ridge itself runs east to west for several miles.

The crest is very rocky and scrambling ability is needed to follow it. The flanks on either side are treacherous, with steep grass and scree concealing steeper ground that ends in cliffs to both north and south.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Aonach Eagach (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 56.679, -5.037. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is remains of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

13-Dec-17

Drop measured from

NN414599 · 345 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks