Tom na Gruagaich

Beinn Alligin is a very distinctive mountain with its great cleft, the Eag Dubh, on the south face of Sgurr Mor. Tom na Gruagaich is the more southerly of two munros on Beinn Alligin and it is connected to Sgurr Mor by a col north of its summit.

This col is one of the possible ascent routes either from Sgurr Mor or more usually from the corrie to the east. The other common ascent route is up the corrie on the south-east face of Tom na Gruagaich. Beinn Alligin is a relatively steep sided mountain with much of its slopes formed of terraced layers of red sandstone which erode to a rounded profile making hand and footholds difficult.