Sgurr na Lapaich

About Sgurr na Lapaich

Sgurr na Lapaich rises north of Loch Mullardoch in the high ground dividing Glen Cannich from Glen Strathfarrar, and is the fourth-highest mountain north of the Great Glen. Nothing in Great Britain to the north of it is higher.

Its topographic prominence of 839 metres makes it the dominant point over a wide area and a good viewpoint in return. It shows particularly well from the east, recognisable as far off as the Moray Firth some thirty miles away, where locals read it for the weather. Note that a separate Sgurr na Lapaich exists as an outlying top of Mam Sodhail.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr na Lapaich (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 57.369, -5.060. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large boulder 15m E of trig point. 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

NH060287 · 311 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.

The Sgurr na Lapaich group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Sgurr na Lapaich 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