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Braveheart is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Mel Gibson, who portrays Scottish warrior William Wallace in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The film also stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack and Angus Macfadyen.
Glen Nevis (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Nibheis) lies in the north of the national scenic area, and runs south from Fort William. [14] It is bordered to the south by the Mamore range, and to the north by the highest mountains in the British Isles: Ben Nevis (Scotland's highest mountain), Càrn Mor Dearg, Aonach Mòr, and Aonach Beag. [15]
Glencoe or Glencoe Village (Gaelic: A’ Chàrnaich [2]) is the main settlement in Glen Coe in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands. It lies at the north-west end of the glen , on the southern bank of the River Coe where it enters Loch Leven (a salt-water loch off Loch Linnhe ).
Coire nan Lochan, a corrie of Bidean nam Bian on the southern side of Glen Coe Glencoe by Hugh William Williams, c. 1825–1829. The glen is U-shaped, formed by an ice age glacier, [9] about 12.5 kilometres (7 + 3 ⁄ 4 mi) long with the floor of the glen being less than 700 metres (3 ⁄ 8 mi) wide, narrowing sharply at the "Pass of Glen Coe".
The island is the site of a graveyard once used by the Stewarts of Ballachulish, the MacDonalds of Glencoe and the Camerons of Callart. The clans shared the island and the maintenance of the graveyard, even when there was conflict between them. [3] The last burial took place in 1972, of Mrs Christina MacDonald Sharpe, a native of Glencoe. [4]
“I just channel my inner William Wallace,” said Harbaugh, referring to the 13th century Scottish independence hero who is played in the 1995 movie “Braveheart" by Mel Gibson. The Wolverines ...
The station was opened by the Callander and Oban Railway, which was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was closed by the British Railways Board in 1966, [ 1 ] when the Ballachulish Branch closed.
The simplest route of ascent starts from the unclassified road between Glencoe village and the Clachaig Inn. A pebble path leaves the road about 1 kilometre (5 ⁄ 8 mi) west of the youth hostel, and passes a white house on the left, reaching the bealach between the Pap and Sgor nam Fiannaidh, from where the Pap may be climbed. The final ...