Beinn Alligin - Sgurr Mor

About Beinn Alligin - Sgurr Mor

Sgurr Mor is the northern and higher of the two Munro summits on Beinn Alligin, the Torridon mountain lying north of Loch Torridon in the Highlands. Its partner, Tom na Gruagaich, stands at 922 metres to the south. The name Beinn Alligin comes from the Gaelic for jewelled hill.

Cutting into the ridge just south of the Sgurr Mor summit is the Eag Dhubh na h-Eigheachd, the black gash of the wailing, also called Leum na Caillich. It is the scar left by the largest rock avalanche known in Britain, roughly 3.5 million cubic metres of debris spilling into the corrie of Toll a' Mhadaidh Mor around 3,750 years ago. Local tradition held that shepherds heard cries from the cleft, and that anyone who went looking for their source fell to their death.

The mountain lies on the National Trust for Scotland's Torridon Estate, in the charity's hands since 1967, and is covered by both SSSI and Special Area of Conservation designations.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Alligin (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 57.591, -5.573. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is very large cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

15-Jan-03

Drop measured from

NG925603 · 385 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.

Nearest listed peaks