The UK has several areas of glaciated upland, including the north west Highlands ... Coire Domhain in the Cairngorms National Park is an example of a hanging valley. A hanging valley is formed ...

The bedrock is hard and, although the area has been heavily glaciated, the Cairngorms boast 20 Munros ... flavour of the landscapes of this unique upland area. For those who haven’t the time ...

New research has revealed that the deep glens and spectacular corries of the Cairngorm mountains were ... has the appearance of a typically glaciated landscape formed during the Ice Age in the ...

Braeriach in the Cairngorms, is a “vestige” of the last Ice Age. It was given its name in the 1940s due to the rocks surrounding it on Garbh Choire Mor, a glacial trough carved into the rock.

There are believed to be about 500 capercaillie left in the UK, all of them in a few upland areas of Scotland ... The research carried out in the Cairngorms has been published in British ...