Hilary Cameron, a tutor with Silver Training, visited the villagers to teach them how to stay connected via the internet – in a place with no roads in or out.

It is believed the event in the village hall, on a peninsula surrounded by mountains on one side and a vast expanse of water on the other, is the most remote digital skills lesson ever given in the UK.

For the lesson, Hilary travelled for five hours on a train from Helensburgh to Mallaig before boarding the 30-minute Knoydart ferry across Loch Nevis to get to Inverie.

She said: “When I arrived the students were waiting for me with their iPads and laptops – it felt very incongruous to see such modern technology in such a timeless place, but the internet is a vital link to the mainland.” The 52-year-old said she assisted the locals with questions on anything from privacy settings on social media and downloading applications to saving email contacts into an address book and how to use a scanner.

The event coincided with Get Online Week – from October 13 to 19 - which aims to encourage the nation to improve its IT skills by staging thousands of events across the country.