Cairngorm Plateau disaster - Wikipedia
The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old Edinburgh school students and their two leaders were on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.
The worst mountain disaster in British history - BBC News
Nov 20, 2021 · In November 1971, five teenage school pupils and their 18-year-old guide froze to death on the Cairngorm plateau, one of the highest and most inhospitable places in Britain. Fifty years on it...
Cairngorms - Wikipedia
The Cairngorms consists of high plateaux at about 1,000–1,200 m (3,300–3,900 ft) above sea level, above which domed summits (the eroded stumps of once much higher mountains [4]) rise to around 1,300 m (4,300 ft). Many of the summits have tors, free-standing rock outcrops that stand on top of the boulder-strewn landscape. [5] .
The worst mountain disaster in British history - BBC
Nov 20, 2021 · In November 1971, five teenage school pupils and their 18-year-old guide froze to death on the Cairngorm plateau, one of the highest and most inhospitable places in Britain. Fifty years on it...
Cairngorms National Park - Wikipedia
The Cairngorm mountains provide a unique alpine semi-tundra moorland habitat, home to many rare plants, birds and animals. Speciality bird species on the plateaux include breeding ptarmigan , dotterel , snow bunting , golden eagle , ring ouzel , and red grouse .
Cairngorms National Park, Scotland - National Geographic
Feb 15, 2011 · Mountaineers cross the Cairngorm plateau, part of the largest national park in Great Britain. Did You Know? • Great Britain Goliath Cairngorms National Park is the largest in all of Great...
The Mountains - Cairngorms National Park Authority
The easternmost of the high Cairngorms mountains, it’s vast plateau covers more than 30km sq, an area that would be large enough for an entire hill range in the West Highlands, coupled with its outstanding landscape and remarkable granite tors, Ben Avon and Beinn a’ Bhuird make for two of the best Munros to climb in the Cairngorms and Scotland.
Cairngorms – Scottish Geology Trust
The Cairngorms: A subarctic landscape carved out of granite. Stand among the ancient weather-beaten granite rocks and ponder the passing of geological time.
Facts & Figures - Cairngorms National Park Authority
The Cairngorm plateau is the highest and has the most extensive range of arctic mountain landscape in the British Isles tweet this fact! There are 55 Munro’s (mountains above 914m in height) in the Park – and once you have climbed one you can officially call yourself a …
The Cairngorms | GeoGuide - Scottish Geology Trust
The broad outlines of the Cairngorms massif are characterized by two major morphological elements: undulating plateau surfaces and precipitous cliffs of corries and glacial troughs (Linton, 1950a; Sugden, 1968). The former are part of a suite of surfaces rising in 'steps' inland from the coast of north-east Scotland (Fleet, 1938; Walton, 1963).