Ben Alder is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom.

How do I get to Ben Alder?

Its coordinates are 56.8138°, -4.4651°.

Is Ben Alder free to visit?

Yes, Ben Alder is free to enter.

Natural landmarks · Scottish Highlands

Ben Alder

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Ben Alder — 1148m high mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Free entry
Dog-friendly

Ben Alder is a named natural landmark in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "1148m high mountain in Highland, Scotland, UK". Coordinates: 56.8138°, -4.4651°.

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Official information

Ben Alder is a remote Munro mountain characterized by its spacious plateau and steep cliffs. Visitors can enjoy dramatic ridges that provide scrambling opportunities and the area is ideal for cross-country backpacking expeditions.

From the Wikipedia article

Ben Alder (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Eallair) is the highest mountain in the remote area of the Scottish Highlands between Loch Ericht and Glen Spean. It rises to 1,148 metres (3,766 ft), making it the 25th highest Munro. The vast summit plateau is home of one of Britain's highest bodies of standing water, Lochan a' Garbh Coire. Ben Alder's north-east corrie exposes a narrow band of metamorphosed Kinlochlaggan Limestone alongside a dark epidiorite sill, forming a small pale cliff and a run of ledges, runnels and sinkholes around 1,030 m. The contrast between calcium-rich "sugar" limestone and the igneous rock, set within surrounding schists and quartzites, creates a tight mosaic of substrates and microhabitats. This outcrop supports one of Britain's richest montane limestone lichen floras, with more than 100 species, including many nationally rare species, recorded in roughly a hectare, and is regarded as second only to Ben Lawers.

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Background

Description

A man's body was found near the top of Ben Alder in June 1996, at the edge of a cliff face, overlooking a lochan, his heart pierced by an old-fashioned lead ball bullet. All the labels had been cut from his clothing. Forms of identification such as credit cards were missing. He had a replica Remington .44, unsuitable slip-on shoes, three 1.5-litre bottles of water in his rucksack and £21 in cash. Although the police later ascertained that his clothing came mostly from French supermarkets, it was not until November 1997, following a cranio-facial reconstruction of the dead man's face, that a friend of the family wondered if the man might be Emmanuel Caillet, from south Paris, France. Last…

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Coordinates: 56.8138, -4.4651
Address: Highlands, Scotland
Official site: www.walkhighlands.co.uk

Sources

wikidata: Q2895316 (CC0)
wikipedia: Ben Alder (CC BY-SA 4.0)
commons: Ben alder.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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