The Cairngorm Mountains in the Scottish Highlands have a unique character. The massif consists of a large granite plateau with relatively high valleys and old forests on the lower flanks. The climate, landscape and ecological conditions on the storm-swept plateau are similar to those in the Arctic. One will find a tundra-like landscape here, with arctic and subarctic flora and fauna. This mountain range has the highest amount of peaks in the whole of Scotland. Four of them are above 1220 meters. The Cairn Gorm itself, after which the mountain-range was named, is 1245 m high, in Gaelic this means 'blue peak'.