Sgurr Alasdair

About Sgurr Alasdair

Sgùrr Alasdair is the high point of the Black Cuillin and the highest summit on Skye, in the Inner Hebrides and across all the Scottish islands. Like the rest of the range it is built of gabbro, a rock that gives excellent grip.

The mountain was known locally as Sgurr Biorach before it was renamed for Alexander Nicolson, who made the first recorded ascent in 1873.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr Alasdair (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 57.207, -6.224. 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 RX1250

Record revised

28-Oct-01

Classification history: Summit surveyed as 992.0m.

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 Sgurr Alasdair group

6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Sgurr Alasdair 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