Sgùrr an Doire Leathain

Sgùrr an Doire Leathain stands in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, a 1 010-metre Munro and Marilyn whose Gaelic name means ‘peak of the broad oak wood’. It sits in the South Glen Shiel Ridge, a fourteen-kilometre chain of seven Munros between Loch Cluanie and Loch Quoich. The ridge divides Glen Shiel to the north from Glen Quoich to the south, its northern flanks showing steep rocky buttresses and deep corries while the southern slopes are uniformly grassy. Walkers value the mountain for its position as the easternmost Munro in the ridge’s western half. The summit is reached by a short north-easterly spur that leaves the main crest just below 1 000 metres, marked only by a small cairn. A second cairn marks Maoile an t-Searraich, a 942-metre subsidiary top that drops steeply into Glen Shiel. To the west the ridge continues to the 1 004-metre Sgùrr an Lochain, enclosing Coire an Lochain between their northern gullies. The mountain can be climbed alone or as part of a full South Glen Shiel Ridge traverse, a sixteen-kilometre journey that starts at the Cluanie Inn in the east or Malagan Bridge in the west. East-side routes follow the Druim Thollaidh and Sgùrr Coire na Feinne before reaching the summit, while the ridge itself offers dramatic views over Glen Shiel and the distant peaks of Kintail.