Introduction
The UK's highest peak lies just 10 miles north of Inchree. An inconic mountain that's steeped in pioneering mountaineering history, it attracts hundreds of thousands of walkers every year, drawn to its plateau summit. Many are tourists who just wish to ascend its easiest route, the pony track on the mountain's southern aspect. Others will tackle its north-eastern face, (the closest to an Alpine face we have in the UK) whether by a summer rock-scramble or a committing winter ice-route.
Although a very small mountain in global terms (1,344 mts.) the potential savagery of the weather system that engulfs it, is what gives 'The Ben', (as it's affectionally known by locals) its sharper 'edge.'
Indeed, the mountain's northern latitide, combined with its propensity to catch the full force of Atlantic fronts and northerly winds is what eventually, over the course of a long winter, creates the climbing conditions so unique to Ben Nevis. It is this individuality which gains it an international reputation within mountaineering circles.
