Editing Cairn Gorm (section)

===1971 disaster===
{{main|Cairngorm Plateau disaster}}
On 21–22 November 1971, five pupils from [[Ainslie Park High School]] in Edinburgh and a trainee instructor from Newcastle-under-Lyme died in a blizzard at Feith Buidhe on the Cairn Gorm plateau.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib128.htm|title=Cairngorm Disaster 1971 - Scottish Saltire Branch - Aircrew Association|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190548/http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib128.htm|archivedate=3 March 2016}}</ref> It stands as the UK's worst mountaineering disaster.<ref>Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Association. 1988. Friends in High Places. ed Cliff, Peter.</ref>