Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Carn Mor Dearg

1,221.1 m

4,006 ftDrop 164.1 mNN 177 721

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCarn Mor Dearg1,221.1Ben Nevis1,344.5Aonach Mor1,220.4Aonach Beag1,234.2Sgurr Choinnich Mor1,094
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmCarn Mor Dearg1,221.1Ben Nevis1,344.5Aonach Mor1,220.4
Looking north, 156 km wide, heights ×32 (method).

Carn Mor Dearg is a Munro of 1,221.1 m in Highland. Only seven of the register's Scotland hills are higher.

It sits below Ben Nevis, only 1.4 km to the south-west and 123.4 m higher. Of the register hills in Highland, only Ben Nevis and Aonach Beag (Highland, NN197715) stand higher. It is 355.4 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland.

To scale

Summit1,221.1 mKey col1,057 msea level
Key col NN 1753 7133, 0.8 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,221.1 m8th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

164.1 m821st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

1.4 km959th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Ben Nevis1.4 km south-west
    1,344.5 m
  2. 2
    Aonach Mor1.7 km north-east
    1,220.4 m
  3. 3
    Aonach Beag2.1 km east
    1,234.2 m
  4. 41,094 m
1234Ben NevisAonach MorAonach BeagN2 km

Lists

  • 8th highest of 282 Munros
  • 6th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Ben Nevis, 1,344.5 m, 1.4 km south-west
Region
04A: Fort William to Loch Treig & Loch Leven
OS map
41
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
282
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Carn Mor Dearg

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