Torridon Mountains With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To The North West Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of the Torridon Mountains on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the North West Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. The Gaelic name, Toirbheartan, is usually applied to the mountains to the north of Glen Torridon. They are among the most dramatic and spectacular peaks in the British Isles and made of some of the oldest rocks in the world. Many are over 3,000 feet high, so are considered Munros. The mountains have steep terraced sides, and broken summit crests, riven into many pinnacles. There are numerous steep gullies running down the terraced sides from the peaks. Mountain include; Liathach, Beinn Eighe, Beinn Alligin, Beinn Dearg and Baosbheinn. The principal Clan surname in the area is MacKenzie, though there are many from Clan MacDonald along the North shore of Loch Torridon. Angus McDonald left the Torridon area of Wester Ross in the 1830s bound for a new life in North America. Among his forebears, was one who had been a young boy in Glencoe when his people were massacred by Scottish Government soldiers in 1692. He escaped and could trace his line back to the progenitor of the clan who came from Ireland in the ninth century. Once across the Atlantic Angus McDonald married into the family of a Nez Perce chief and later set up home set up on what is today the Flathead Reservation in Western Montana. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. @tourscotland All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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