
The Cuillin and other Skye Mountains
The Cuillin Ridge & 100 select routes for mountain climbers & hillwalkers
Tom Prentice(Author)
Mica Publishing
Published on 8. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-9993728-0-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the ultimate guide to Skye's mountains, offering comprehensive coverage of all the island's peaks. Skye is a paradise for mountain climbers and hillwalkers. This guidebook selects more than 100 varied mountain routes from all over the island, ranging from some of the most challenging in Britain, to pleasant ascents of grassy summits.
The jewel in the island's crown is The Cuillin and a summer traverse of the Cuillin Ridge, the 30 or so peaks and tops that form the Cuillin crest, is a major challenge to any mountain climber. This guidebook utilises 50 annotated topo-diagrams to describe the Cuillin Ridge in greater detail than ever before, with sections on Planning, Tactics and Equipment.
However, the Cuillin Ridge is just one of more than 100 routes described in this guide. Most mountain climbers and hillwalkers visiting Skye are climbing one of the 12 Munros, 9 Munro Tops, 2 Corbetts, 9 Grahams and 35 sub-2000ft Marilyns on the island. This guidebook describes routes on all of these peaks and many other classics such as the Clach Glas Traverse, Pinnacle Ridge on Sgurr nan Gillean, the Dubhs Ridge on Sgurr Dubh Beag and Dun Cana on the Isle of Raasay.
The jewel in the island's crown is The Cuillin and a summer traverse of the Cuillin Ridge, the 30 or so peaks and tops that form the Cuillin crest, is a major challenge to any mountain climber. This guidebook utilises 50 annotated topo-diagrams to describe the Cuillin Ridge in greater detail than ever before, with sections on Planning, Tactics and Equipment.
However, the Cuillin Ridge is just one of more than 100 routes described in this guide. Most mountain climbers and hillwalkers visiting Skye are climbing one of the 12 Munros, 9 Munro Tops, 2 Corbetts, 9 Grahams and 35 sub-2000ft Marilyns on the island. This guidebook describes routes on all of these peaks and many other classics such as the Clach Glas Traverse, Pinnacle Ridge on Sgurr nan Gillean, the Dubhs Ridge on Sgurr Dubh Beag and Dun Cana on the Isle of Raasay.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Illustrations
215 colour photographs, 120 topo-diagrams and 55 maps
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
812 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9993728-0-4 (9781999372804)
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Person
A journalist by profession, Tom Prentice lives in Glasgow and has spent his life photographing and exploring the mountains and climbs of the Highlands & Islands, contributing articles to newspapers and magazines and authoring guidebooks. A co-founder of Mica Publishing, until 2017 he was Publisher for the Scottish Mountaineering Club, overseeing the compilation and production of their climbing, scrambling and hillwalking guidebooks.