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Name: | Ben More Assynt |
Hill number: | 1183 |
Height: | 998m / 3274ft |
RHB Section: | 16E: Scourie to Lairg |
County/UA: | Highland |
County (CoH): | Sutherland (CoH) |
Catchment: | Dornoch |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Munro, High Hills of Britain, Historic County Top, Murdo, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,M,HHB,CoH,Mur,Y,P600,P500) |
Grid ref: | NC 31832 20137 |
Summit feature: | quartzite outcrop |
Drop: | 835m |
Col: | 163m NC299079 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 15 (1:25k) 442E |
Observations: | cairn c 60m S at NC 31840 20084 is probably lower |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 756 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Conival, Ben More Assynt plus south top | Geoff Briggs | 21/11/2023 |
By standard out-and-back from Inch Lodge after Shills meet. Warm and sunny at bottom (keds), into the clag, cold rain and stiff breeze, then out above clouds on traverse between summit. BMA in sunshine with views down to Shin. Inversion to N and S of arete. Cleared totally about 4pm, by which time I was nearly down. | Rounsfell | 09/10/2023 |
Round of Conival, Ben More Assynt and Ben More Assynt South Top. Took the good path in from Inchnadamph and up Conival. Across the ridge to Ben More Assynt via it's W top and up to the munro summit. Followed the path across the ridge to the S top - it's a fairly pleasant ridge in summer, no real exposure or technical sections (just one lump of rock that can be clambered over or around). Headed south after the S top and then before the ascent to Carn nan Conbhairean, dropped very steeply down the side of a gully to the valley floor, and then skirted west of Dubh-Loch Mor and up to the bealach between Conival and Breabag, and then the intermittent path back out to the original inbound track, and back to Inchnadamph. Total time 7h 11min - very hot day. | mproudfoot | 17/06/2023 |
Walk in from Inchnadamph up Conival and along ridge to Ben More Assynt. Relatively easy day. Cloud base at 900 metres although cloud cleared as I descended. Time taken 7 hours 15 minutes. Although I spent a lot of time chatting and then relaxing on the summits. Distance 11.5 miles 3868 feet of ascent. | isabelle | 06/06/2023 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 21/04/2023 |
From Inchnadanph. Via caves to Am Bealach, Dubh Loch Mor. Steeply up to ridge just S of Carn nan Conbhairean. South top, Ben More Assynt, Conival and return via Allt a Choinne Mhill. Last hour in darkness. 9 hour walk. With B and R. | jenx | 29/11/2022 |
On own. Weather perfect with cloud level above summits all day giving fantastic views throughout. From the public car park in front of Inchmadamph Hotel via Conival and Ben More (Assynt) West Top returning by the same route. The route between Conival and the ridge to Ben More Assynt was extremely tough going and needs taking slowly and carefully amongst the boulders. | Beeliner | 11/09/2022 |
Cornival and Ben More. Camped at around 800m and had an early start. | Nicky C | 16/08/2022 |
2/2 ....along ridge to summit. Airy but minimal exposure. Think this would be excellent in winter. Some clearing of clouds to reveal very extensive views to vast open spaces to North. Walk out by same route | wychwood | 12/06/2022 |
Did not successfully summit. Abandoned due to incredibly high winds and snowy/icy conditions. | Jazz16 | 26/02/2022 |
Conival, Ben More Assynt & Breabag from Inchnadamph to Allt nan Uamh , bike back to Inchnadamph. 25km hike, 5km bike | Huwel | 16/08/2021 |
With Christine | Keith99 | 30/07/2021 |
With Keith | christine99 | 30/07/2021 |
Conical & Ben More Assynt. There and back. Cloudy going up but clear views with cloud inversion on summits. | Ajm0310 | 21/07/2021 |
club camping weekend, solo walk | JamesSDonald | 05/06/2021 |
From the public car park in front of Inchmadamph Hotel via Conival and Ben More (Assynt) West Top returning by the same route. 10pm finish covering 12 miles in 12 hours with the last couple of miles along Glean Dubh taking about 3 hours. Thought it was tiredness but ended up injuring right Achilles and left knee resulting in 3 month lay off from any serious hills. On top of that the hotel owner came looking for us as a result of being reported to police for late return to campsite and if that was not enough we hit a deer on the journey back to camp. | mntainman | 10/05/2021 |
Climbed from Inchnadamph with AML, descent past war grave to lochan and stalkers path to N | D.Hoyle | 26/09/2020 |
From Inchnadamph following track along Traligill to col between Beinn an Fhurain and Conival, then up Conival, continuing along ridge to Ben More Assynt via W top, returned same way. With JAS. | kdbennett | 16/08/2020 |
With D Great day, windy up valley but calmer higher up. Golden eagle at ridge then back to ullapool for seafood shack. View to hope and klibreck and an teallach. | Rodge | 16/08/2020 |
Out from Conival and then back same way. Didn't bother with the South Top this time. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 01/10/2019 |
Solo - done with Conival | mproudfoot | 01/09/2019 |
Bagged with Conival (987m) from the Inchnadamph car park in the north west highlands. These are two hills that I had planned on getting multiple times, when I lived in Inverness, but there was always an excuse not to, so I’m very chuffed to have finally bagged them. In the wind shelter on Conival I met a very friendly 73 year old called Keith and we paired up for the rest of the day. 09:40hrs in total sunshine and blue skies till 5pm then overcast but dry. | chillyman8 | 15/07/2019 |
With AB | Johnthemate | 06/07/2019 |
With Jonathan. Glorious day. | Chris Blake | 07/06/2019 |
MMC Durness WE. With Iain Wilson left Ulapool YH 0800 for Ichnadamph. followed WH route. Stiff pull to bealach. Sensational alpine round on easy snow. Met about 18 people during the day. 8 hours | alexmaclennan | 10/05/2019 |
with Sue Hill | Cumbrianexile | 15/04/2019 |
mist and windy with mike shaw and peter walker | lithosyork | 29/12/2018 |
Reached from the car park at Inchnadamph on an eleven mile walk first summiting Conival. Walk took around seven hours in wintery conditions (beware of the pink rock as this can be very slippery) and the path can be difficult to pick out at times, still a brilliant walk along the ridge in between the two tops. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 24/12/2018 |
What a mountain and what a day!- the whole ridge and surrounding wilderness in sharp sunlight- a joy to be up here. Huge spectacular and unusual quartzite towers on ridge. HP was a central outcrop. Lingered over lunch before continuing to Conival. | Denise | 14/10/2018 |
Warm and sunny day - good visibility for much of the day. Nice walk from Inchnadamph - clear, dry and reasonably sunny. Good paths except the rough climb to the ridge. | Capt Malbec | 14/10/2018 |
From Inchnadamph (Loch Assynt) along Traligill to Conival and then along the ridge to Ben More Assynt. Cloudy conditions, improving, but strong cross wind on ridge across to Ben More Assynt. | knarf | 29/08/2018 |
KeithByTheC | 17/07/2018 | |
With Jack 
Between Jura and Lamm (backpacking) | fellie | 30/05/2018 |
Climbed with Rob, together with Conival. Very cold and windy with quite a lot of snow. Ice axe and crampons left in the car because there wasn't much snow yesterday. | banksey | 23/04/2018 |
Both Munros from Inchnadampf - WalkHighlands route | Crib Goch | 26/09/2017 |
Solo | neil hutton | 26/05/2017 |
Route 68 from the Cicerone guide book | dianepick | 19/08/2016 |
With Dave after Conival | mn23 | 29/07/2016 |
2nd munro of day.Weather really atrocious - strong cold wind and heavy rain becoming hail after we summitted. Bridge near Inchnadamph which we crossed on way up now overwhelmed by strong current and unsafe to use. | dave neilson | 29/07/2016 |
From Inchnadamph Lodge, the path is clear (even after it ends on the map) all the way over Conival and on to Ben More. Given that 5 hours of the 7 were in the fog, that's just as well. The walk along the river at the start and end was lovely. The climbing and descending in the fog was slippy and quite tough! However county top 17 complete. | callumorr | 25/07/2016 |
Third visit, in order to clear up outlying tops. Very windy | Colin Crawford | 14/06/2016 |
Walked with the Steven Faloon group. Good weather. Deep snow. | Eileen O'Neil | 01/05/2016 |
with Nick and Quicke also Conival again | Dunlawyering | 30/09/2015 |
Continued along ridge in the mist from conival...2 munros in one day is getting a bit much for an old fella like me. | steven ruffles | 31/08/2015 |
From Conival, the ridge was in thick cloud. No problems. Decided to return to Conival rather then the planned other route down. Don't forget to check both cairns - which are 100m apart- just in case. | Jhimmy | 26/08/2015 |
Climbed with Conival, very clear day. | tomd4 | 22/08/2015 |
Same day as Conival, views to West North and East coasts from the top. | thedayman92 | 22/08/2015 |
Tash | pigerg | 22/07/2015 |
10miles, 6 hours for both | Tash | 22/07/2015 |
With Roger and Ingrid | Loz_mck | 21/07/2015 |