Webcams should be installed on Scotland's mountains to help save lives, a politician has claimed.
At the moment a few popular resorts such as Loch Ness and the Cairngorms already have the digital devices fitted where users can gauge the conditions ahead.
Scottish Conservative MSP Liz Smith said an increased number of webcams would help prevent accidents.
Mrs Smith said: "There are excellent weather forecasts available, but I think this should be expanded.
"A network of webcams would be another tool in the box to help people gauge the conditions at higher altitudes. I believe it would save lives."
Weather conditions can change rapidly in the Scottish Highlands In January four people died in an avalanche while descending the 3,658ft Bidean nam Bian near Glencoe.
Two of the victims, Dr Rachel Majumdar, 29, and Tom Chesters, 28, met at university and were making plans for a future together in Leeds.
They died alongside Lancashire ocean mapping PhD student Christopher Bell, 24, and 25-year-old junior doctor Una Finnegan, who originally came from Co Antrim.
The four died on January 19 when an avalanche struck around 2pm without warning and swept them 1,000ft down the mountainside.
A fifth member of the party was taken to hospital and a sixth person is thought to have survived after he used an ice axe to anchor himself after jumping clear.
Last month another climber died after falling more than 160ft on Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain.
But the Mountaineering Council for Scotland (MCS) questioned the benefit of the webcams.
Spokesman David Gibson said: "It's great that politicians are taking an interest in mountain safety.
"But webcams are more likely to encourage people without the sufficient skills and experience to venture onto the mountains.
"We have a publicly funded avalanche service which provides excellent information and there is a mountain weather information service."
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