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|text='''Cairn Gorm''' or '''Cairngorm''' is a grand mountain on the border of [[Banffshire]] and [[Inverness-shire]], in the Highlands | |text='''Cairn Gorm''' or '''Cairngorm''' is a grand mountain on the border of [[Banffshire]] and [[Inverness-shire]], in the Highlands, overlooking Strathspey and Aviemore. At 4,084 feet, it is the sixth-highest mountain in the United Kingdom. | ||
Cairn Gorm has given its name to the whole range, the Cairngorms amongst which it is the most prominent in the view from Speyside, but it is not the highest: Ben Macdhui, 3 miles to the south, Britain's second mountain, overtops it by 210 feet. | Cairn Gorm has given its name to the whole range, the Cairngorms amongst which it is the most prominent in the view from Speyside, but it is not the highest: Ben Macdhui, 3 miles to the south, Britain's second mountain, overtops it by 210 feet. | ||
Much of the north-western slopes of the mountain are downhill skiing developments and as well as ski tows, snow fences and bulldozed tracks, the corrie here now also bears a funicular railway}}<noinclude>[[Category:Front Page data templates|Cairngorm]] | Much of the north-western slopes of the mountain are downhill skiing developments and as well as ski tows, snow fences and bulldozed tracks, the corrie here now also bears a funicular railway}}<noinclude>[[Category:Front Page data templates|Cairngorm]] | ||