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    FORT WILLIAM & GLENCOE

    Nov 05, 2020 6 minutes
    Words: Ben Lerwill

    The Highlands weren’t so named by chance. Their crowning glory, Ben Nevis, is famously the highest mountain in the UK, but it’s no lonely monolith: the tallest 75 peaks in the British Isles are all found in Scotland (their nearest competitor, Wales’ Snowdon, enters the charts at a lowly number 76). This swathe of the country is a steep-sided, cairn-clustered magnet for anyone with fresh air and adventure in mind — and one particular area of the western Highlands draws more attention than most.

    In Fort William, on the shores of Loch Linnhe, the mountain biking is fabled, the climbing first-rate and the long-distance trails numberless. The town is also bristling with Scottish history — a trait it shares with the scenic valley of Glencoe, which lies less than half an hour’s drive away. Combining these two spots makes for a bracing way to spend a short break. Expect deep glens, fearsome ridgelines and film-worthy panoramas — and lots of time feeling very small indeed.

    DAY ONE HISTORY, HEIGHTS & HEAVENS

    MORNING

    Fort William

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