The world’s most sublime places #4: Torridon, Scotland

The scariest drive, the stillest loch, the best pub at the end of any road. Welcome to the remote northwest Highlands

There has to be a Scottish Highlands place in my Sublime Top 10. But which one? It came down to two candidates, both on the West Coast.

Assynt nearly got it. It’s a landscape of unthinkably ancient, weird beauty. There are little villages where there are more sheep walking down the road than people. There’s Suilven, a mountain that sounds and looks as i…