Ben Lawers

Ben Lawers, which has been recognized as a National Nature Reserve (NNR) since 1964, is home to an extraordinarily rich range of arctic-alpine plant species and habitats due to its high altitude and underlying geology. Ben Lawers is the highest peak in the Scottish Highlands' southern region. It is the highest point in a lengthy ridge that encompasses seven Munros to the north of Loch Tay.

Ben Lawers was long assumed to be over 4,000 feet tall, but actual measurements taken in the 1870s revealed that it was only 17 feet short. To make up for the gap, a group of twenty men spent a day in 1878 erecting a cairn large enough to raise the mountain to 4000 feet. Ben Lawers is the only mountain on this list of the UK's tallest mountains that is not in either Fort William or the Cairngorm National Park.

Elevation: 1,214m
Location: Perth and Kinross
Scottish Gaelic name: Beinn Labhair
Gaelic meaning: Hill of the loud stream or hoof or claw mountain