Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Ben Hope

927 m

3,041 ftDrop 772 mNC 477 501

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen Hope927Ben Loyal – An Caisteal764.2Sabhal Beag730.4Meall Horn776.7Beinn Spionnaidh773.7
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen Hope927Ben Loyal – An Caisteal764.2Sabhal Beag730.4
Looking north, 3936 km wide, heights ×1121 (method).

Ben Hope is a Munro of 927 m in Highland. In the database's Durness to Loch Shin region it is the highest of 12 register hills, above Foinaven [Foinne Bhein] – Ganu Mor and ten others.

Its closest neighbour in this register, Ben Loyal – An Caisteal, is 10.1 km away. Its drop of 772 m is 83% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 155 m above sea level. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Meall Horn, reaches 776.7 m. It stands 162.8 m above its nearest neighbour, Ben Loyal – An Caisteal, 10.1 km to the east. It shares its height of 927 m with Eididh nan Clach Geala. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Eididh nan Clach Geala (927 m) and Beinn Narnain (926.8 m). The summit is marked by a trig point.

To scale

Summit927 mKey col155 mdrop 772 msea level
Key col NC 488 402, 10.0 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

927 m256th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

772 m43rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

22.9 km57th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1764.2 m
  2. 2
    Sabhal Beag12.7 km south-west
    730.4 m
  3. 3
    Meall Horn13.5 km south-west
    776.7 m
  4. 4
    Beinn Spionnaidh13.5 km north-west
    773.7 m
1234Ben LoyalSabhal BeagMeall HornBeinn SpionnaidhN5 km

Lists

  • 256th highest of 282 Munros
  • 196th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Ben Klibreck – Meall nan Con, 962.1 m, 22.9 km south-east
Region
16B: Durness to Loch Shin
OS map
9
Summit
Trig point
DoBIH no.
1123
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Ben Hope

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