Buachaille Etive Mòr, generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille, is a truly iconic mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland. Its name, in Scottish Gaelic, means “the herdsman of Etive”. Its pyramidal form, as seen from the A82 road when travelling towards Glen Coe, makes it one of the most recognisable mountains in the United Kingdom.
The Buachaille takes the form of an 8km ridge which contains four principle tops, two of which, Stob Dearg and Stob na Bròige, are Munros (two of the 282 mountains in Scotland with a height over 3,000 feet). When I took this photograph in early March 2020, the cap was still dusted by snow, which I think perfects offsets the surrounding moor and bogland.