A Day in Glen Etive and Glen Coe

This was our fourth day staying in Fort William last August to visit places we had not been to for a number of year and in this video we drove straight through Glen Coe to reach Glen Etive for a drive up that glen and stopped to see the mountains in “The Pass of Glen Coe” in late afternoon.

Glen Etive:- Glen Etive lies just south of Glen Coe where the wild waters of the River Etive flow west through pools and fall towards Loch Etive. The road winds past the towering heights known as the Herdsmen of Etive, Buachaille Etive Mor and Buachaille Etive Beag. This U-shaped glen, including the slopes descending from mountains and is renowned for its curious red deer and some instantly recognisable film scenes, including the location of James Bond’s family home in the movie, Skyfall. The road ends at Loch Etive which then flows into Loch Linnhe eventually reaching the North Atlantic Sea.

Glen Coe:- This ancient Highland Glen was formed by a super volcano hundreds of millions of years ago, then sculpted by massive glaciers in the last Ice Age. The Pass of Glen Coe is a deep gorge cut by the River Coe, surrounded by mountains in natural landmarks, with inspiring views and a sorrowful past. A place of history, wildlife, adventure and myth, with the soaring cliffs of the Three Sisters, home to Ossian’s Cave, the birthplace of an ancient mythical Celtic hero. History of the people who once made their home in this glen, before Jacobite loyalties and the Clearances, saw them replaced with sheep and deer. Eight Munro mountains tower above the Glen.
I hope you enjoy my video but you have to see this part of Scotland to appreciate how lovely it is.

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Music used:- Mist Covered Mountains of Home by Bill Garden and his Scottish Orchestra

Brief facts of the “Massacre of Glen Coe”
Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, an infamous massacre took place in the Valley of Glencoe in the Highlands of Scotland. This incident is referred to as the “ Massacre of Glen Coe” or in Scottish Gaelic, “Mort Ghlinne Comhann”' (murder of Glen Coe). The massacre began simultaneously in three settlements along the glen at Invercoe, Inverrigan and Achnacon, although the killing took place all over the glen as fleeing MacDonalds were pursued. Thirty-eight MacDonalds from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe were killed by the guests who had accepted their hospitality on the grounds that the MacDonalds had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs,William and Mary. Another forty women and children died of exposure after their homes were burned. The tragedy of the Glen Coe Massacre still has the power to evoke powerful emotions.