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Summer Climbing in Lochaber. Ben Nevis provides some of the finest mountaineering and rock climbing routes in the British Isles. On the north-east side there are routes of all lengths and grades from two pitch Very Difficult climbs to E grade routes nearly 300 metres in length. At 420 metres, 'The Long Climb' (Very Severe) is one of the longest rock climbs in Britain. A climb up one of the classic ridges of 'The Ben' can give a mountaineering adventure which is second to none in quality and situation. The most popular of the ridges is probably Tower Ridge, a stupendous 600 metres of superb scrambling and climbing at Difficult standard. Countless years and ice ages have eroded the hills of Lochaber to their present rough and craggy shapes. There is a very strong tradition of naturally protected climbs. Glen Nevis The many mica-schist buttresses scattered in amongst the trees that go to make up Polldubh in Glen Nevis provide Scotland’s best roadside cragging.

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