Summer Cuillin Mountains On History Visit To Isle Of Skye Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish music, of the Black Cuillin mountains, Scottish Gaelic: An Cuilthionn or An Cuiltheann, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides. The main Cuillin ridge is also known as the Black Cuillin to distinguish it from the Red Cuillin, na Beanntan Dearga, known locally as Red Hills, which lie to the East of Glen Sligachan. The peaks of the Black Cuillin mountains are mainly composed of gabbro, a very rough black igneous rock which provides a superb grip for mountaineers, and basalt, which can be very slippery when wet. . The highest point of the Cuillin, and of the Isle of Skye, is Sgùrr Alasdair in the Black Cuillin at 3,255 feet. The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies. Twelve Black Cuillin peaks are listed as Munros, though one of them, Blaven, is part of a group of outliers separated from the main ridge by Glen Sligachan. The Cuillin is one of 40 National Scenic Areas in Scotland. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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