[Oonoch Bayk] Gaelic, meaning Small Ridge (despite being higher than Aonach Mòr).
Aonach Beag is a giant of a hill, with three steep, craggy faces of very different characters.
The North Face has ice routes of a quality to rival anything on Ben Nevis, and is fairly accessible from the Nevis Range Ski Centre. The West Face has a succession of shorter schist crags giving excellent steep mixed climbing interspersed with late-season ice-lines. The East Face is a wild, isolated place, almost alpine in scale, with several separate crags that hold great but rarely-climbed winter lines of all types.
The North Face is the most frequently visited part of Aonach Beag, with a relatively short approach and high-quality routes that can be completed between the first and last cable cars.