Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Ben More Assynt

998.9 m

3,277 ftDrop 836 mNC 318 201

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen More Assynt998.9Conival987.6Breabag815Glas Bheinn774.9Beinn Leoid792.9
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBen More Assynt998.9Conival987.6Breabag815
Looking north, 2715 km wide, heights ×78 (method).

Ben More Assynt is a Munro of 998.9 m in Highland. Nothing higher stands within 39.3 km; the nearest higher summit is Beinn Dearg (1,084 m), to the south.

Its drop of 836 m is the 26th greatest of the 1,140 hills here. It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county. In the database's Scourie to Lairg region it is the highest of 11 register hills, above Conival and nine others. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Conival, reaches 987.6 m. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Sail Chaorainn (999.2 m) and A' Chailleach (Highland, NH136714) (998.6 m). The highest point is recorded as quartzite outcrop, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit998.9 mKey col163 mdrop 836 msea level
Key col NC 299 079, 12.3 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

998.9 m143rd highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

836 m26th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

39.3 km35th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Conival1.5 km west
    987.6 m
  2. 2
    Breabag5.4 km south-west
    815 m
  3. 3
    Glas Bheinn9.0 km north-west
    774.9 m
  4. 4
    Beinn Leoid9.3 km north
    792.9 m
1234ConivalBreabagGlas BheinnBeinn LeoidN5 km

Lists

  • 142nd highest of 282 Munros
  • 115th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 10th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Beinn Dearg, 1,084 m, 39.3 km south
Region
16E: Scourie to Lairg
OS map
15
Summit
Quartzite outcrop
DoBIH no.
1183
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Ben More Assynt

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