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    BEN ALDER

    May 21, 2021 3 minutes

    “Even on coloured paper [i.e. of the map] that country around Ben Alder bore the unmistakable stamp of the wild and the wilderness, recessed by corries great enough to have at their backs still greater fastnesses, where secret things awaited inquiry.” W.H. Murray

    Ben Alder might not be the prettiest mountain in Britain – it’s a huge, undulating sprawl of a plateau lying north-east of Loch Ericht, and for a mile or more it tops the thousand-metre contour – but what it is, beyond dispute, is one of the major and most isolated hill massifs in the Scottish Highlands.

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