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Lochan Buidhe
Lochan Buidhe is a small freshwater loch located on the Cairngorms, Cairngorm Plateau in the eastern Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland. At over above sea level, it is the highest named body of water in the British Isles.https://www.wildernessscotland.com/blog/top-5-walking-routes-cairngorms-ben-macdui/. Retrieved 17 July 2024. The loch and its primary outflow, Feith Buidhe were the site of the 1971 Cairngorm Plateau disaster, in which a group of five school students and their leader died of exposure after being stranded in the open for two nights in a blizzard. References Freshwater lochs of Scotland Lochs of Highland (council area) {{UK-lake-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairngorms
The Cairngorms () are a mountain range in the eastern Scottish Highlands, Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm. The Cairngorms became part of Scotland's second national parks of Scotland, national park (the Cairngorms National Park) on 1 September 2003. Although the Cairngorms give their name to, and are at the heart of, the Cairngorms National Park, they only form one part of the national park, alongside other hill ranges such as the Angus Glens and the Monadhliath, and lower areas like Strathspey, Scotland, Strathspey. The Cairngorms consists of high plateaux at about above sea level, above which domed summits (the eroded stumps of once much higher mountains) rise to around . Many of the summits have Tor (rock formation), tors, free-standing rock outcrops that stand on top of the boulder-strewn landscape. In places, the edges of the plateau form steep cliffs of granite and they are excellent for skiing, rock climbing and ice climbing. The Cairn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
