Mountain Comes Up Short As Its Munro Status Is Stripped
The Scotsman › September 11, 2009
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SCOTLAND has lost a Munro. Sgurr Nan Ceannaichean in Wester Ross was struck off the list of iconic Scottish mountains yesterday after the latest GPS technology found it stood less than the required 3,000ft (914.4m) or more to qualify.
Sgurr Nan Ceannaichean - Gaelic for Peak of the Merchants or Peddlars, south west of Achnasheen - was discovered to be only 913.4 metres high, almost a metre short.See the full content of this document
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Mountain Comes Up Short As Its Munro Status Is Stripped
It now been "downgraded" to a Corbet.
However, hillwalkers are still left with 283 Munros to climb.The Munro Society has completed four surveys this ye...See the full content of this document
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