Highest camping spot ever

Today we hiked up the Munro Ben Hope. Starting at 42 meters above sealevel, is was a quite a climb to the top at 927 meters high. Especially with al the camping gear in our backpacks.

Starting point to Ben Hope - Full of energy 

But I work much like a 2CV going uphill, very slowly but I will get there in the end. It took us 4,5 hours to walk the 4 km uphill, a steady 23% climb.

I must admitt that I wasn’t to happy after about 3 hours. Each time it looked like we reached the summit, there was another one behind it. Very frustrating, but we made it, even though I did get some help from Tanguy with my backpack.

Tos is still visible

Steeper as we got higher

The views got better and better as we got higher


Very steep towards the top

But the rewards was this magnificent view at the top.

We made it to the top of Ben Hope 

The north side goes straight down 500m




View from our tent

And a beautiful but bit chilly (5 degrees C) place to put our little camp up for the night. Luckilly we have our thermo underware with us, and some rescue blankets, so we will be nicely warm.

Our camp site right next to the top

Coffee with single malt after our noodles

View from inside our tent

And on top of it all we were blessed with a beautiful sunset to close the day.

Sunset from Ben Hope


Good night