BENMORE
“Ben More is easily climbed from Dishig on Loch na Keal. An ascent in fine weather reveals the isles from Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, and the Highlands over vast tracts beyond naming. Around the summit, clouds boil up with extreme rapidity: map and compass are essential, but the compass should be read well away from the cairn, which is magnetic.”
The Hebrides, WH Murray, 1966
THE LAST TIME I saw beautiful Ben More of Mull was across the Firth of Lorn from the summit of Beinn Cruachan. In clear winter air its steep eastern flanks looked close
