Sgurr Dubh Mor

About Sgurr Dubh Mor

Sgùrr Dubh Mòr stands a little east of the main Cuillin ridge on Skye, at the highest point of the Dubh ridge. That ridge runs eastwards from the summit down towards Loch Coruisk.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr Dubh Mòr (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 57.205, -6.211. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

29-Mar-23

Drop measured from

NG452205 · 855 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Sgurr Dubh Mor is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Sgurr Alasdair (992 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 855 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