Beinn Alligin Winter Sunrise

Sunrise on Beinn Alligin Winter on the morning of the Winter Solstice

Beinn Alligin is the most westerly of the tryptic of peaks, including its near neighbours Liathach and Beinn Eighe, standing on the northern side of Glen Torridon. It is a handsome mountain quickly identified by two particular features seen at their best from this viewpoint; the east ridge which is comprised of three distinct tops known as ‘the Horns of Alligin’ and a great cleft known as Eag Dhubh na h-Eigheachd (black gash of the wailing) or Leum na Caillich, which cuts into the ridge south of the main summit, Sgurr Mhor (986m). It is the scar of the most spectacular rockslide or rock avalanche in Britain, which runs out into the corrie of Toll a’ Mhadaidh Mor. This image of Beinn Alligin Winter Sunrise was captured from an elevated locatoion on the morning of the winter solstice from the southern shores of Loch Torridon.