Cuillin

Cuillin The Black Cuillin is a world famous range of mountains on the Isle of Skye. The highest point of the Black Cuillin is Sgùrr Alasdair at 992m (3,255ft).

The Black Cuillin is mainly composed of basalt and gabbro, it is from the dark colour of the gabbro that the Black Cuillin derives its name. The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies. All twelve Munros on Skye are Black Cuillin peaks except for Blaven which belongs to a group of outliers separated from the main ridge by Glen

Sligachan. At the heart of The Cuillin lies one of Britain's most famous corrie’s, Loch Coruisk, a deep and forbidding body of water. It has inspired countless artists such as William Turner and Sir Walter Scott who described them after his visit in 1814: ‘We were now under the western termination of the high mountains of Cuillin, whose weather-beaten and serrated peaks we had admired at a distance from Dunvegan. They sunk here upon the sea, but with the same bold and peremptory aspect which their distant appearance indicated. They seemed to consist of precipitous sheets of naked rock, down which torrents were leaping in a hundred lines of foam. The tops, apparently inaccessible to human foot, were rent and split into the most tremendous pinnacles: towards the base of these bare and precipitous crags the ground, enriched by the soil washed away from them, is verdant and productive.’

The Cuillin basking in the autumn sunshine.
25/10/2023

The Cuillin basking in the autumn sunshine.

The mystical approach to the mighty Cuillin
18/08/2022

The mystical approach to the mighty Cuillin

Spring is in the air in and around the Cuillin 😊
29/04/2021

Spring is in the air in and around the Cuillin 😊

The Cuillin on the Isle of Skye, probably one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world... ...
31/12/2020

The Cuillin on the Isle of Skye, probably one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world...

The Cuillin on an idyllic midsummers evening
09/08/2020

The Cuillin on an idyllic midsummers evening

The Cuillin - probably the most beautiful mountains in the world.
16/05/2019

The Cuillin - probably the most beautiful mountains in the world.

Where the Black Cuillin meets the Red Cuillin
14/03/2019

Where the Black Cuillin meets the Red Cuillin

The Cuillin’s tooth
23/02/2019

The Cuillin’s tooth

Sunset from the Cuillin looking across the Isle of Soay to the Isle of Rum
19/02/2019

Sunset from the Cuillin looking across the Isle of Soay to the Isle of Rum

The Cuillin in a winter wonderland
02/02/2019

The Cuillin in a winter wonderland

The Cuillin peaks have their winter hats on
01/12/2018

The Cuillin peaks have their winter hats on

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