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Mountain Guiding and Instruction on Ben Nevis, Glen Coe and the Skye Cuillin. Summer and Winter Climbing, Mountaineering and Walking. www.lochaberguides.com
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We specialise in guided ascents of Ben Nevis and offer guiding on Tower Ridge, Ledge Route, the Carn Mor Dearg Arete and more. We also regularly guide in Glencoe on the classic Aonach Eagach and Curved Ridge. Throughout the Summer we guide on the Skye Cuillin offering Cuillin Ridge Traverses, Cuillin Munros and the Inaccessible Pinnacle. In Winter, we run a full range of Winter courses from Winter

walking to Winter Mountaineering and Winter Climbing as well as private guiding. Get in touch to plan your next adventure with us!

28/01/2025

We had lots of ideas of what we could climb today as we walked into Ben Nevis but reports of icy cracks and poor protection proved to be true for our route options on the Douglas Boulder. We quested on up West Gully to look for something to climb and settled on a natural gully line on the right wall. This gave some good (but bold) moves over a couple of icy and turf bulges and took us up to the crest near the start of Tower Ridge. 'Don't mention the war' IV, 4 Always a pleasure climbing with .guides and !

19/01/2025

Well, it's wasn't quite the weekend of winter mountaineering we had planned but for some summer scrambling, I've had much worse weather in the summer! Phil, Andrew and I adapted our plans to the conditions and had a brilliant weekend starting with Curved Ridge yesterday and tackling the Aonach Eagach today. I had to remind myself a couple of times that it was still January and not Spring! Stunning light and lovely weather...but bring back the snow please!
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09/01/2025

A fab day climbing with good friends .guides and on a crag we've all walked past lots of times but never climbed on! -Blacks Buttress on Mullach nan Coirean. We climbed Boab's Burnt Head Gasket (V,6) which Scott led up the interesting slabby first pitch whilst I got to lead the excellent corner above. Brilliant climbing on a nice and local crag!

01/11/2024

Throwback to a couple of weeks ago. Assynt certainly does do a good sunrise!

01/10/2024

October has started off beautifully in the Highlands! A wonderful day getting to show off the Cuillin at their finest whilst helping bag some Cuillin Munros. Rachel did a great job getting to grips with the Cuillin and cruised over our 3 Munros today- Sgurr Mhic Choinnich, the Inaccessible Pinnacle and Sgurr na Banachdich ✅️✅️ ✅️.- top marks Rachel!

27/09/2024

Dramatic light and showers in the mighty Glen Coe today. What a great place to learn mountain skills!
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25/09/2024

If Carlsberg did Autumn days...😃
After scraping a thick frost off the car this morning, Richard and I enjoyed a chilly walk in to Ben Nevis with sun just peeking over the cliffs.
Ledge Route was catching the morning sun but the North side was still quite frosty and slippy. It was great to see Richard's scrambling confidence improve as we ascended the route and before long we were admiring the Autumn colours on the surrounding hills from the summit plateau. A rapid descent down the Red Burn saw us back to enjoy some warm sunshine in the Glen.

23/09/2024

What a stunning week it's been in the West Highlands. However, all good things must come to an end and it felt like business as usual today in Glencoe. It's was not a day for views on the Aonach Eagach!
Still, Alice, James and I had fun on the UKs narrowest mainland ridge which was just about dry for the most part. Very little exposure to deal with today as visibility was about 10m for much of the day! Looking like a chilly week coming up 🥶

17/09/2024

At 9am this morning we were in UHI NWH Fort William and within a couple of hours, Gillian and I were enjoying views like this with our keen group of Certificate in Outdoor Leadership students.
Fort William is such a cool place to go to college/uni, especially at the School of Adventure Studies UHI with this as a classroom.
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05/09/2024

I've been nursing an injury over the last month since my Tranter round so it was sooooo good today to get running in the mountains again! (Especially in the sunshine!)
I don't think I'll ever get fed up of Tower Ridge which I had to myself ahead of a few teams on their way in this morning.
In what's sometimes felt like a bit of a sunless summer, a bit of solar charging was just the ticket!

01/09/2024

Worth waiting for! After a reschedule due to some pretty minging weather, it was great finally get out with Sam and David on the In Pinn today. It was a tad windy first thing but with no gusts and bone dry rock, the climbing felt fine (after we got well wrapped up!).
With the weather too good to head down, we headed over to Sgurr Mhic Choinnich to bag the team a double Cuillin Munro day. A pleasure climbing with you both!

31/08/2024

Sunny days have been very rare this summer. Two in a row even less so! It was great to spend the first proper sunny day in ages working alongside with Peter and team on the Aonach Eagach. An early ish start nabbed us an all elusive parking space and got us ahead of the crowds (there were a lot of folk up there today unsurprisingly!).
A strong effort from everyone on the ridge today and glad the weather gods were finally kind!

13/08/2024

-Tranter's Round-
On Sunday I finally got the chance to run this route taking in the hills around the Glen Nevis skyline. With 18 Munros, 66km and 6260m of elevation gain this was a BIG day out! I'm still processing how I feel about the day other than it was hard! 😅
-High points-
-Seeing 2 golden eagles above Aonach Beag early in the morning.
Bumping into my first client I'd guided up Tower Ridge over 8 years ago! (Thanks for final 📸 of me)
-Low points-
The descent into Glen Nevis from the Grey Corries- boggy heather bashing....
- Acquiring an IT band issue about 2 Munros from then end and having to walk/hobble the last section that dragged on for quite a while! 😬
Glad I've done it and waiting for some of the moments of type 3 fun to turn to type 2 fun!

05/08/2024

As the rain poured down today, I was thinking back to my day out with Claire and Danny on Thursday last week. The couple had an adventurous honeymoon planned with a trip along the brilliant Aonach Eagach!
The weather started off a bit wetter and windier than forecast but with an improving picture we kept the faith (and kept going) eventually emerging out of the drizzle into sunshine. The route proved a great level of challenge for the team. Top effort in pushing your scrambling grade and working together superbly on the rope together. What a fantastic way to kick off married life together!

31/07/2024

A day out with some furry friends!

28/07/2024

Life can be very busy sometimes and getting time to go climbing with friends can be tricky. Thankfully this weekend, Andy and I managed a little trip up North for some climbing at the Bealach na Ba. Sword of Gidean was a route I'd been meaning to climb for years so it was nice to finally get round to it- what amazing rock and very enjoyable climbing too!
Our plan for a short hit this morning got rained off (surprisingly given the forecasts 🙈) but it's always great to have a mini adventure with a good friend.

24/07/2024

What an epic couple of days guiding Harriet and Charlotte on the incomparable Cuillin Ridge Traverse. We climbed all 11 Munros on the ridge as well as having a chilly but enjoyable bivvy near An Dorus (enjoyable when the cloud finally cleared after sunset!). Mountain adventures don't get much better and well done team on a sterling effort on 2 big and gruelling days!
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20/07/2024

It was a very welcome surprise to get home completely dry today! Calum, Lucy and I were resigned for a wet day on Curved Ridge but other than a few spots in the wind, we had a remarkably dry and pleasant day. We added an ascent of Crowberry Tower to extend the scrambling before arriving at an empty summit of Stob Dearg. The couples' climbing mileage at served them well and it was smiles all around!

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