Scotland is a country renowned for mountainous and rugged landscape and there are few peaks as iconic as Ben Arthur (Beinn Artair in Gaelic), more widely known as the Cobbler. This fine mountain is part of the Arrochar Alps, a group of summits located around the head of Loch Long, Loch Fyne and Loch Goil situated near the villages of Lochgoilhead and Arrochar. At a height of 884 meters (2,900 feet), the peak falls just short of Munro height (the name given to the group of 282 Scottish mountains at…
