The Scottish Highlands

Tower Ridge

from Observatory Ridge on Ben Nevis

Tower Ridge is one of several ridges

protruding to the NW

from the summit plateau of Ben Nevis,

The ridge starts close to

the Charles Inglis Clark hut in Coire Leis 

and terminates close to the highest point of the mountain. 

The normal route up Tower Ridge

is a graded 3S scramble ( the highest scrambling grade ),

and contains short pitches of rock climbing

graded as difficult. 

It is one of the few routes in Scotland

with sufficient length and exposure

to be considered Alpine in character.

In winter it is graded Scottish Grade III

partly because most of its difficulties 

( in particular the Eastern Traverse and the Tower Gap )

are high up on the route.

Castle Ridge is in background of photo