Ben Macdui is part of which European mountain range?
Ben Macdui Ben Macdui Ben Macdui () is the second highest mountain in the United Kingdom (in absolute height) after Ben Nevis, and the highest in the Cairngorms National Park. After the defeat of Domnall mac Uilliam in 1187, Donnchad II, Earl of Fife, acquired Strathavon, a territory stretching from Ballindalloch to Ben Macdui; because the mountain marked the western boundary of Donnchad's territory, historian and place-name scholar Professor G.W.S. Barrow has suggested that the mountain took its name from Donnchad's family, the Mac Duibh. Ben Macdui lies on the southern edge of the Cairn Gorm plateau, on the boundary between Aberdeenshire
Ben Macdui some locals planned to build a cairn on the top of Ben Macdui to make its height greater than Ben Nevis, but these plans did not come to fruition. The summit of the mountain has a direction indicator erected in 1925 by the Cairngorm Club of Aberdeen in memory of a past president, Mr Alexander Copland. The indicator shows the directions of the most important hills that can be seen from the summit in clear weather. Snow patches have been known to persist at various locations on Ben Macdui, most notably Garbh Uisge Beag. After she had climbed to the