• Ben Nevis attracts an estimated 125,000 complete and a further 100,000 partial ascents per year, most of which are made by walkers using the well-constructed...
  • The popular tourist path from Glen Nevis skirts the side of this hill before ascending Ben Nevis's broad western flank.
  • Near the town of Fort William Ben Nevis is one of Scotland’s nine mountains above 1,200m.
  • Although today Ben Nevis is a pretty wet and wild part of the Scottish Highlands, this towering mountain was once sculpted by the forces of ice and fire.
  • The easiest route up the mountain, the track begins at the Ben Nevis Visitor Centre car park, at Achintee on the east side of Glen Nevis about 2 km from the town...
  • If you don’t know, a glen is essentially a valley with a river running down it, so funnily enough the River Nevis runs below Ben Nevis.
  • Measurements of the elevation of Ben Nevis’s summit have varied slightly over the years; in 2016 the Ordnance Survey, Britain’s mapping agency, announced a...
  • Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, at 1344.527 m / 4413 ft - it gained about a metre during a 2016 official survey.
  • Ben Nevis also caters to climbing enthusiasts, with its north face one of the most celebrated climbing grounds in the UK.
  • We have also done Scafell Pike and felt that Ben Nevis despite being higher was easier to climb!