The pride of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, and Scotland's southernmost Munro, 3195ft (974m) Ben Lomond is even more popular than Ben Nevis, and it's only 40 miles northwest of Glasgow. This does mean that the distinctive cone visible from Balloch isn’t the best place to find splendid isolation, but the broad path from Rowardennan is an easy place to start the quest to conquer your first Munro. A gradual ascent via the south ridge leads to sweeping views of silvery Loch Lomond, overlooked by a chain of ridges rippling beguilingly away into the Highlands. Ben Nevis Best Munro for bragging rights

This one is a no-brainer – the tallest Munro is at the same time the United Kingdom’s highest mountain. Located near Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, Ben Nevis stands as the country’s highest mountain and the tallest Munro of them all, at 4,411 feet. Did Anyone Manage to Bag all the Munros? This is a very popular mountain with exceptionally easy terrain and a straightforward trail. However, the best thing about Buachaille Etive Beag is that it has two summits, allowing trekkers to bag two Munros in a single day. The Lawers Range This is a superb way to ‘climb’ a mountain for anyone with mobility issues, but visitors are currently not permitted to exit the station due to the damage inflicted on the fragile slopes by countless tourists over the years. This is one of the highest peaks in Scotland at over 4,000 feet and is, in fact, the seventh-highest mountain in Britain, so anyone thinking of climbing up it will require a degree of fitness and stamina as well as experience in scaling Scotland’s tougher peaks.First-aid kit: Ensure it includes items such as bandages, plasters, pain relief, and blister prevention.

Think of it like this – what if the weather suddenly changes and you have to deal with zero visibility? What if your GPS device fails? What if the battery in your smartphone runs out of juice? One thing is certain, and that’s that you wouldn’t be the first outdoor enthusiast lost in the middle of nowhere without knowing how to navigate in rapidly changing conditions. That’s not a typo by the way, the Scottish Mountaineering Club still uses the spelling from the days of Hugh Munro.Personally, I wouldn’t say any criteria that make climbing one mountain ‘better’ than climbing any other because what one person thinks is a great Munro can just as easily be at the bottom of the list for someone else. The first reported completion of all the Munros plus the Munro Tops in one continuous expedition was byChris Townsend. His trip lasted 118 days in 1996. Munro published his findings in the Scottish Mountaineering Club journal in 1891 with a set of tables that detailed 538 summits over 3,000 feet. Of these, 282 were classified as separate mountains, and it’s these that we refer to today as ‘Munros’.

The Explorer range is best for walking as they’re more detailed, but I tend to go for Landranger maps as they double up for long-distance cycle routes. My collection of OS maps takes pride of place on my bookshelf. Steve Fallon from Edinburgh has completed 16 rounds of all the Munros as of the 1st October 2019, making him the person with the record for the most rounds. Donalds, or Donald Hills, are subsequently defined from Donald Tops, where a Hill is the highest Top with a separation of 17 units or less. A unit is either one twelfth of a mile along a Top's connecting ridge or 50ft (30.5m) in elevation between the Top and its connecting bealach/col. The separation is the sum of these two measures. Clerk of the List (October 2018). "Compleators". Scottish Mountaineering Club. The SMC hold a record of Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds compleators.

Map of mountains in Scotland over 3,000ft

Ben Macdui is the second highest peak in Britain, behind Ben Nevis. Macdui sits in the centre of a vast wilderness in Mar Lodge Estate, and the remote hike from the Linn of Dee up to the summit (avoiding the ski slopes on the Cairngorm) is 18 miles long. It’s quite a twisty-turny route as it has to bypass quite a few gorges, but the effort involved is more than worth it, and visitors will have umpteen photo opportunities of Strathmore as they forge ahead through the heather-covered lower slopes. Towards the top, it gets steeper and more barren as the plants thin out and the slopes become scree-covered, and it becomes a downright scramble once you get nearer to the summit.