Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Ben Alder

1,148 m

3,766 ftDrop 783 mNN 496 718

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen Alder1,148Beinn Bheoil1,019Geal-charn1,131.4Aonach Beag1,115.8Carn Dearg1,034.1
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBen Alder1,148Beinn Bheoil1,019Geal-charn1,131.4
Looking north, 1411 km wide, heights ×35 (method).

Ben Alder is a Munro of 1,148 m in Highland. Its drop of 783 m is the 40th greatest of the 1,140 hills here.

In the database's Loch Treig to Loch Ericht region it is the highest of 19 register hills, above Geal-charn (Highland, NN469746) and 17 others. The key col lies 23.9 km away to the west, at 365 m. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Geal-charn (Highland, NN469746), reaches 1,131.4 m. It is 282.3 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. The summit is marked by a trig point.

To scale

Summit1,148 mKey col365 mdrop 783 msea level
Key col NN 262 668, 23.9 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,148 m25th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

783 m40th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

23.4 km56th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Beinn Bheoil2.1 km east
    1,019 m
  2. 2
    Geal-charn3.8 km north-west
    1,131.4 m
  3. 3
    Aonach Beag4.5 km north-west
    1,115.8 m
  4. 4
    Carn Dearg4.7 km north
    1,034.1 m
1234Beinn BheoilGeal-charnAonach BeagCarn DeargN2 km

Lists

  • 25th highest of 282 Munros
  • 20th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Stob Choire Claurigh, 1,178.3 m, 23.4 km west
Region
04B: Loch Treig to Loch Ericht
OS map
42
Summit
Trig point
DoBIH no.
345
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Ben Alder

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