The southern side of Glen Coe includes some very well-known mountains and can be split into two groups; the ones you can see from the A82 and the ones you can’t. Included in the former group is Buachaille Etive Mor, Buachaille Etive Beag, the Three Sisters and the Ballachulish Horseshoe, and in the latter, three Munros between Glen Creran and Glen Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Beinn Sgulaird). With huge amounts of climbing and walking in summer and winter, this area is also home to a large cairn built for Queen Victoria, or so the story goes. Includes all major peaks above 600m.
I led a group of 8 people up Sgorr Dhonuill via the gully to the East of it. Starting from Ballachulish. It was a relatively inexperienced group and I needed to keep them close together and provide coaching and support to one member of the group. She became very tired as we descended from the col to the West of Sgorr Dhonuill. She and her partner wanted us to go on but I resisted and explained that her feeling bad about slowing us down was a lot more trivial than the potential consequences of splitting the group. We just got back about one and a half hours later than anticipated.
