Alligin

A MAJOR search is under way in Wester Ross for a missing Dingwall hill runner. Alex Brett is believed to have headed to the Torridon area of Wester Ross on Sunday to run a route covering Beinn Eighe, Beinn Dearg, Beinn Alligin and Liathach. Mr Brett ...

A hillwalker has been seriously injured in a fall while on a trek on a mountain in Wester Ross. It was believed he fell about 200ft (61m) on Beinn Alligin on Monday morning. He was walking with another hillwalker when he fell. Torridon and Kinlochewe ...

A critically-injured climber was airlifted to hospital after plunging 200ft from a mountain in the Highlands. The man, believed to be in his 50s, fell from Beinn Alligin in the Torridon area at 10.30am on Monday. The Torridon Mountain Rescue Team was ...

MOBILE phone giant Vodafone is under fire for its poor service to customers in a remote Wester Ross community who haven't had a signal for a month. Residents of Alligin, near Torridon, have been without a service since the end of February, when stormy ...

Not as majestic as Liathach and not as tall as Beinn Eighe but Beinn Alligin is still an important leg of the Torridon Hills' tripod. It's distinctive two munro peaks are famed throughout the area and although ascending the mountain is not the most ...

THE jewel of Torridon, Beinn Alligin is well named and equal in stature, for me at least, to any diamond tiara. It was my hundredth Munro and its distinctive shape, with the pinnacled "Horns of Alligin" at its eastern end, makes it instantly ...