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02-11-2008, 08:23 PM
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| | | A new mountain!
Congratulations to our Welsh members on the birth of your new baby mountain! 
Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia has been re-measured and found to be 609.75 metres high instead of the previous measurement of 609 metres dead. This tips it six inches over the 2000 feet needed to be classified as a mountain. Huzzah!
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02-11-2008, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2  Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia has been re-measured and found to be 609.75 metres high instead of the previous measurement of 609 metres dead. This tips it six inches over the 2000 feet needed to be classified as a mountain. | It's a hill - from Nevis down, they're all hills!
We've been all through this before, IIRC
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02-11-2008, 08:38 PM
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Jim, Jim, Jim. Haven't you checked Wikipedia? That's most unlike you!
"Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a topographic prominence over a defined value: for example, according to the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, the term "generally refers to rises over 2,000 feet (609.6 m)".[3] This is a widely accepted common usage in the UK"
So go on then, what makes Nevis a mountain if nothing else can be?
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03-11-2008, 08:42 AM
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| | | Re: A new mountain!
I saw the programme yesterday. Three men had a hunch that it was a mountain and they proofed it  They went up a hill and came down a mountain!
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03-11-2008, 09:49 AM
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That's strange cos I go up hills and come down knackered.
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03-11-2008, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by K9photo That's strange cos I go up hills and come down knackered. |
I saw the piece on CountryFile yesterday about the new Welsh mountain, and remembered it being discussed here on WAB. |
03-11-2008, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 So go on then, what makes Nevis a mountain if nothing else can be? | My original post _included_ Nevis as a hill!
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03-11-2008, 07:49 PM
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What is the exact height in metres for a mountain (ie = 2000ft)? I don't like silly metres, but I grudgingly suppose I should know that. Hills and mountains should always be in feet on OS maps. Poor old Cross Fell (and upteen others), demoted from a mighty 2930' to 893m. It's a disgrace! Bah, humbug.
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04-11-2008, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by ChrisJB What is the exact height in metres for a mountain (ie = 2000ft)? | 2000ft = 609.6m
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04-11-2008, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford My original post _included_ Nevis as a hill!
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Jim | So it did, Jim. Apologies - I misread it. Although I still don't understand why, when the common UK usage is to call anything over 2000ft a mountain, they're all hills.
In fact, I've just decided that they're not even hills - nothing but bumps in the road the lot of them!
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