Ben Nevis and Glen Coe - A Walking Guidebook

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Reviews
• Further Reading

Walking the Munros Vol 1 Southern by Steve Kew, p/b Cicerone ISBN 978 1 85284 402 8 (2004)
If you simply wanted the convenient route up each of the Munros you should have bought Kew’s book rather than the one you’re reading now.

Scrambles in Lochaber by Noel Williams, p/b Cicerone 2nd edition ISBN 978 1 85284 234 5 (1996)
Covers 72 routes, many of them down to the author’s own explorations. Good routes lucidly described, with the occasional geological insight as a bonus.

SMC Ben Nevis Rock and Ice Climbs from the Scottish Mountaineering Club, SMT ISBN 978 0 907521 73 0
Includes the Aonachs and areas east.

Climbing Guide – Glen Coe from the Scottish Mountaineering Club, p/b SMT ISBN 978 0 907521 70 9

Winter Climbs Ben Nevis and Glen Coe by Alan Kimber, p/b Cicerone 6th edition ISBN 978 1 85284 348 9 (2002)
The routes graded 1 are accessible to competent walkers with ice axe and crampons (or look at the pictures and get scared!)

Lochaber Geotrails: Glen Nevis and Glen Coe by Lochaber Geopark Association
These two leaflets (from TICs) are good introductions to the ‘collapsing caldera’ formation special to Ben Nevis and Glen Coe.

Ben Nevis – Britain’s Highest Mountain by Ken Crocket, p/b SMT ISBN 978 0 907521 16 7 (1986)
The history of climbing on Ben Nevis; new edition in preparation.

Glencoe by John Prebble, Penguin ISBN 978 0 14 002897 3
A passionate but scholarly account of the massacre without any of the usual easy myths, placing it in context as the first chapter in the destruction of the Highland way of life. Skip the visitor centre, or go in there just to buy this book.

Mountaineering in Scotland by W.H. Murray, Bâton Wicks ISBN 978 1 898573 23 4 (1947)
Bidean and the Buachaille should not just be walked up! Places hillwalking in its wider context of rock, snow and ice-climbing, while being the greatest work so far of Scottish landscape appreciation.

Hostile Habitats: Scotland’s Mountain Environment p/b SMT ISBN 978 0 907521 93 8 (2006)
Takes your knowledge a bit further on everything from rhyolite to ravens.