Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Aonach Mor

1,220.4 m

4,004 ftDrop 133 mNN 193 729

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmAonach Mor1,220.4Aonach Beag1,234.2Carn Mor Dearg1,221.1Ben Nevis1,344.5Sgurr Choinnich Mor1,094
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmAonach Mor1,220.4Aonach Beag1,234.2Carn Mor Dearg1,221.1
Looking north, 116 km wide, heights ×22 (method).

Aonach Mor is a Munro of 1,220.4 m in Highland. Only eight of the register's Scotland hills are higher.

It is a Munro but not a Marilyn: its 133 m of drop is short of 150 m. It is 354.7 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. Its nearest higher summit, Aonach Beag, is also the hill its key col leads to. The database describes the top as a large cairn.

To scale

Summit1,220.4 mKey col1,087 msea level
Key col NN 193 719, 1.0 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,220.4 m9th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

133 m917th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.5 km926th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Aonach Beag1.5 km south
    1,234.2 m
  2. 2
    Carn Mor Dearg1.7 km south-west
    1,221.1 m
  3. 3
    Ben Nevis3.1 km south-west
    1,344.5 m
  4. 41,094 m
1234Aonach BeagN2 km

Lists

  • 9th highest of 282 Munros

Record

Nearest higher
Aonach Beag, 1,234.2 m, 1.5 km south
Parent Marilyn
Aonach Beag
Region
04A: Fort William to Loch Treig & Loch Leven
OS map
41
Summit
Large cairn
DoBIH no.
281
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Aonach Mor

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). How high are the Munros?