Summer Eastern End Of Glencoe On Visit To The Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish music, of the Eastern end of Glencoe on visit to the Scottish Highlands. The Kings House Hotel is an inn located at the eastern end of Glen Coe at the junction with Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands. The inn, which is sited in an isolated position, about i mileto the east of the head of the glen towards Rannoch Moor, and faces towards Buachaille Etive Mor, is a popular hostelry with hill walkers and rock climbers. It is called the King's House because it was used by the British Army during the subjugation of the Highlands following the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Buachaille Etive Mòr, Scottish Gaelic: Buachaille Èite Mòr, meaning " the herdsman of Etive ", generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille, is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland. Its pyramidal form, as seen from the A82 road when travelling towards Glen Coe, makes it one of the most recognisable mountains in Scotland. Buachaille Etive Mòr takes the form of a ridge nearly five miles in length, almost entirely encircled by the River Etive and its tributaries. The ridge contains four principal tops: from north east to south west these are Stob Dearg, Stob na Doire, Stob Coire Altruim and Stob na Bròige. Stob Dearg and Stob na Bròige are both Munros. Buachaille Etive Mòr is separated from its sister mountain of Buachaille Etive Beag to the west by the valley of Lairig Gartain.

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