Munro
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right|thumb|Ben Nevis is the highest Munro and highest mountain in Britain
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable peaks
- Remotest Munros
- Peak bagging
- Notable completions
- Continuous rounds
- Fastest rounds
- Furths
- See also
- References
- Citations
- General references
- External links
right|thumb|Ben Nevis is the highest Munro and highest mountain in Britain
A Munro (; ) is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over , and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. The best known Munro is Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in the British Isles at 4,411 ft (1,345 m).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Munro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.