Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh South Top

About Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh South Top

Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh South Top is a 969.9-metre Munro Top of Sgùrr a' Ghreadaidh, which stands higher than any other peak on the northern half of Skye's Black Cuillin ridge. The parent mountain carries two summits separated by a knife-edged arête and, like the rest of the range, is formed of gabbro, a rock that gives good grip for mountaineering.

Sgùrr a' Ghreadaidh counts among the harder of the main Black Cuillin peaks to reach. The simplest route climbs to the col of An Dorus, most easily gained from Glen Brittle, though the exit from the col is a Grade 3 scramble and the north ridge to the summit involves sustained scrambling at a lower grade; the south ridge towards Sgùrr Thormaid is also Grade 3, with few safe ways off for a considerable distance. John MacKenzie was just 14 years old at the time of the mountain's first ascent.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr a' Ghreadaidh (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 57.226, -6.234. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250

Record revised

16-Mar-19

Drop measured from

NG 4452 2305 · 953.9 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Sgurr Dearg - Inaccessible Pinnacle (986 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 954 m.

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