451:. There has always been some uncertainty about which is the highest point, with both An Gearanach and An Garbhanach given a height of 3,200 feet on pre metric maps in the 1970s. An Garbhanach reaches a height of 975 metres and in 1921 was accidentally elevated to Munro status and An Gearanach reduced to a "top" due to the vagaries of old fashioned mapping techniques. The mistake was rectified in the 1933 revision of Munro's tables with an explanation that it had all been a mistake. The northern slopes of An Gearanach require some care when descending from the mountain to Glen Nevis and there have been fatalities as walkers have left the
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on a wire suspension bridge and passing the foot of the waterfall, a stalkers path zig zags up the hillside to gain the NNE ridge and up to the summit. The approach from
Kinlochleven involves firstly ascending Stob Coire a' Chàirn by the stalkers' path up Coire na Ba before continuing to An Gearanach
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Gearanach are basically a north-south summit ridge just over a kilometre in length with steep flanks which drop into the valleys of the Allt Coire a' Mhail to the west and the Allt Coire na Gabhalach to the east. At the northern end of the mountain are three ridges which go
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during a circuit of the Allt Coire a' Mhàil, a glen which feeds the An Steall Ban waterfall. The An Steall Bàn ("the white spout") is a fine sight as it drops 120 metres down the northern lower slopes of An
Gearanach. The base of the falls is passed on the approach to the mountain from Glen
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The waterfall of An Steall Bàn flows into Glen Nevis on An
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dropping into deep glens on either side and requires a good
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386:of 151 metres it just qualifies as a
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764:Loch Ericht
593:22 November
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98:Coordinates
70:Parent peak
1042:Categories
998:Chno Dearg
993:Càrn Dearg
967:Geal Charn
962:Geal-Chàrn
952:Càrn Dearg
792:Aonach Mòr
476:References
400:Glen Nevis
396:Loch Leven
384:prominence
326:Munro Top
275:Landranger
108:56°45′30″N
60:Prominence
932:Ben Alder
833:Am Bodach
798:Ben Nevis
573:Footnotes
429:Am Bodach
414:Geography
191:Geography
111:4°58′02″W
75:Am Bodach
50:Elevation
896:Stob Bàn
868:Stob Bàn
756:Scotland
687:Archived
611:Archived
453:stalkers
404:Corbetts
374:Overview
368:Highland
364:Lochaber
356:mountain
353:Scottish
318:NN188665
302:Grid ref
282:Explorer
267:Topo map
259:NN187669
227:Scotland
223:Highland
825:Mamores
459:Ascents
436:Nevis.
421:Bealach
392:Mamores
388:Marilyn
362:in the
308:Status
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246:Mamores
184:-ə-nəkh
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82:Listing
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