Glen Shiel runs for 10 miles from Loch Duich to Glen Cluanie with impressively beautiful mountain scenery on either side. Peaks to the north include the Five Sisters of Kintail while on the other side of the glen there are such 3000 footers as the Saddle, Sgurr na Sgine, Creag nan Damh and Sgurr an Lochain. The glen, which forms part of the ancient Road to the Isles, has witnessed over the
centuries many historic events, including incidents concerned with the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, and Boswell’s famous journey with Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1773. It was along this route also that the drovers took their cattle to the markets of the south, some of the animals having swum the narrows from the Isle of Skye to the mainland. Scottish Mountaineering

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