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Why a road with 14 hairpins was planned for Scottish mountain

Nevis Range planners were asked to go back to the drawing board.

What ended up being built was a shorter road to a base station at 100m (328ft) and a gondola system to take people to a top station – and the slopes – 650m (2,132ft) up the mountain.

Nevis Range marked its 30th anniversary in 2019.

As well as snowsports, the centre is a well-known venue for stages of a mountain bike world cup competition.

Mr Hutchison suggests sticking with the original access road could have threatened the survival of Nevis Range.

He adds: “The land that this road would have occupied, zigzagging back and forth, is the same land used today for the downhill mountain bikes.

“So the mountain biking might not have happened.”


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