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Feb 19 2025
Hellevassfonni
Hellevassfonni 🏔️ Overview Hellevassfonni is a high mountain summit on Hallingskarvet, a long, elevated mountain ridge in southern Norway. The summit lies in Hol Municipality in Buskerud and forms part of the broader Scandinavian Mountains. The name can be slightly confusing because Hellevassfonni is also the name of the small glacier immediately beside the summit. …
Feb 19 2025
Aonach Beag
Aonach Beag 🏔️ Overview Aonach Beag is one of the great high mountains of the Scottish Highlands, rising to approximately 1,234 meters (4,049 feet) in Lochaber, close to Fort William. It stands immediately east of Ben Nevis and forms part of the mountainous western end of the Grampian Mountains. With a prominence of about 404 …
Feb 19 2025
Ben Lawers
Ben Lawers 🏔️ Overview Ben Lawers is one of Scotland’s highest and most distinctive mountains, rising above the northern shore of Loch Tay in Perth and Kinross. At 1,214 meters (3,984 feet), it is the 10th-highest Munro in Scotland and the highest summit in the Breadalbane area of the Scottish Highlands. The mountain forms the …
Feb 19 2025
Ben More
Ben More 🏔️ Overview Ben More is one of the great mountains of the southern Scottish Highlands, rising prominently above Glen Dochart near the village of Crianlarich in central Scotland. Its steep, broad-sided profile makes it one of the most recognizable mountains in this part of the Highlands. Reaching 1,174 meters (3,852 feet) above sea …
Feb 19 2025
Stob Binnein
Stob Binnein 🏔️ Overview Stob Binnein is one of the great high mountains of the southern Scottish Highlands, rising to 1,165 meters (3,822 feet) near Crianlarich in central Scotland. Only nine meters lower than neighboring Ben More, it forms a striking twin-mountain pair with its larger companion. Although Ben More is slightly higher and more …
Feb 19 2025
Snowdon
Snowdon 🏔️ Overview Snowdon, known in Welsh as Yr Wyddfa, is the highest mountain in Wales, rising to 1,085 meters (3,560 feet) above sea level. It stands in the heart of Eryri National Park in Gwynedd, North Wales, surrounded by steep ridges, glacial lakes, rocky cwms, and some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in …
Feb 19 2025
Clawdd Coch
Clawdd Coch 🏔️ Overview Clawdd Coch is a high rocky summit on the southern side of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in Gwynedd, North Wales. Rising to approximately 931 meters (3,054 feet), it forms part of the dramatic southern ridge system of the Yr Wyddfa massif within Eryri National Park. Although overshadowed by the 1,085-meter summit of …
Feb 19 2025
Lugnaquilla
Lugnaquilla | Lugnaquillia | Log na Coille Lugnaquilla rises above the southern Wicklow Mountains as the highest mountain in County Wicklow and the entire province of Leinster. Reaching 925 meters (3,035 feet), it is also the highest mountain in Ireland outside County Kerry. Often shortened simply to “Lug,” the mountain is very different in character …
Feb 19 2025
Normannviktinden
Normannviktinden Normannviktinden, more commonly spelled Nordmannviktinden in Norwegian mapping and reference sources, is a prominent mountain in Kåfjord Municipality in Troms, northern Norway. Rising above the eastern side of the Lyngenfjord area between Nordmannvik and Olderdalen, the mountain reaches an officially mapped elevation of approximately 1,353.5 meters (4,441 feet). Despite being considerably lower than Norway’s …
Feb 19 2025
Riehppegaisa
Riehppegaisa 🏔️ Overview Riehppegaisa, also written Riehppegáisá, is a remote and highly prominent mountain in Nordreisa Municipality in Troms, northern Norway. Rising to approximately 1,337 meters (4,388 feet), the mountain stands east of Reisadalen within the northern Scandinavian Mountains. Riehppegaisa is not among Norway’s highest mountains, but elevation alone understates its topographic significance. With roughly …
