Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms: The Cairngorms and Creag Meagaidh

This guide, now in a fully updated sixth edition, offers a selection of some of the best winter routes to be found in the Cairngorms and on Creag Meagaidh. The granite peaks of the Cairngorms have extensive areas of high plateau and four peaks of over 4000ft, while Creag Meagaidh is noted for its classic ice climbs. Well-known routes on Lochnagar are also covered here, as well as the more remote and serious climbs on Braeriach. With something to suit all winter climbers here in the heart of Scotland, the Cairngorms has it all. Routes are illustrated in 51 colour photo topos and include a wide range of grades, lengths and styles, from straightforward to exceptionally difficult. All routes require a solid mountaineering or climbing background.

Table of Contents:
Getting to the Cairngorms List of diagrams Introduction Conditions Routes and grades Route lengths Recommended routes Maps Equipment Avalanches Mountain rescue Cairngorms North Overview map Coire an t-Sneachda The Mess of Pottage Aladdin's Buttress Fluted Buttress Fiacaill Buttress Coire an Lochain Number 1 Buttress Number 2 Buttress Number 3 Buttress Number 4 Buttress Lurcher's Crag (Creag an Leth-Choin) Sron na Lairige Carn Etchachan The Lower Cliff, Main Face The Upper Cliff, Main Face The Gully Face Shelter Stone Crag Garbh Uisge Crag Hell's Lum Crag Stag Rocks Left-hand Section Right-hand Section Stac an Fharaidh East Flank West Flank The Cairntoul/Braeriach Amphitheatre Angel's Peak Corrie of the Chokestone Gully Garbh Choire Mor Garbh Choire Dhaidh Coire Bhrochain Coire an Lochain The Corries of Beinn a'Bhuird Coire na Ciche Coire an Dubh Lochain Garbh Choire Coire Sputan Dearg Grey Man's Crag Area Snake Ridge Area The Central Buttresses Creagan a'Choire Etchachan Cairngorms South Overview map Lochnagar The Southern Sector Perseverance Wall The Cathedral The Northern Sector Central and Shadow Buttress Group Eagle Ridge and the Parallel Buttress Group Black Spout Pinnacle West Buttress Group Creag an Dubh Loch Eagles Rocks Mid-West Buttress Mid-East Buttress Broad Cairn Bluffs Glen Clova Winter Corrie Corrie Fee Creag Meagaidh Overview map Creag Meagaidh Girdle Traverse Bellevue Buttress Raeburn's Gully Buttress Pinnacle Buttress The Post Face The Inner Corrie Appendix A Index of Routes: Cairngorms North Appendix B Index of Routes: Cairngorms South Appendix C Index of Routes: Creag Meagaidh

About the Author :
Allen Fyffe has been an active mountaineer for over 40 years and has completed over 200 new routes in Scotland in both summer and winter. He has also climbed in Canada and Peru but is especially active in the Cairngorms. Blair Fyffe has rock climbed extensively throughout Britain and Europe and has climbed new winter routes in Norway and new alpine routes in Kyrgyzstan. In 2006 he completed a PhD in slab avalanche release at Edinburgh University.