Ladder Hills

The highest point of the range is Càrn Mòr at 804 metres (2,638 ft), which is classed as a Corbett; other named tops include Monadh an t-Sluich Leith (800m), Carn Liath (792m), Dun Muir (754m) and Little Geal Charn (742m).

The hills are formed for the most part from late Precambrian age metamorphosed sandstones and mudstones; quartzites, psammites, pelites and semipelites which together form the Ladder Hills and Kymah Quartzite formations.

These are placed within the Islay Subgroup of the Argyll Group, itself a division of the late Dalradian Supergroup.

The rock strata are intensely folded and typically dip steeply to the southeast or northwest.

[2] The range takes its name from the Ladder Road, a high pass which runs between Glenlivet and Strathdon (via Glen Nochty).