Teams were helped by a helicopter from HMS Gannet

Royal Air Force personnel who were on winter exercises in the area have joined the operation.

A Royal Navy helicopter and the Glencoe and Strathclyde Police Mountain Rescue Teams are also involved in the search.

A police spokesperson said the 62-year-old, from Fort William, was very experienced and well-equipped.

The man had told his family he was going to climb around the Loch Creran area on Saturday.

The search was launched when he failed to return home that evening.

A Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter was scrambled from HMS Gannet at Prestwick on Sunday morning.

Steep ascent

The search followed a number of incidents on Scotland's mountains over the weekend.

Rescue teams said two men were taken to hospital in Inverness after being swept several hundred feet down a mountain by an avalanche.

The climbers had been starting a steep ascent of Coire an Lochan in the Cairngorms on Saturday.

Other climbers helped to dig them out and police said their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.

Two other men were rescued on Friday night after becoming stuck on the slopes of Ben Nevis.