Sgurr wrote:Is it BN? Pominence going upwards. Ben More, Sgurr Alasdair, Carn Eighe Ben Nevis??? Just back from the Lake District where mere pimples along a ridge count as separate Wainwrights (Rampsgill head anyone? it is virtually flat between it and Kidsty Pike.
Although rohan did the hard work, and got almost all the way up the hill
, it is sgurr who has touched the cairn first
Yes - my list is the most prominent Scottish mountains, listed in ascending order. The Ben More above Crianlarich just sneaks into fourth place ahead of its namesake on Mull, and of course
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Nevis tops the list.
Wainwright certainly had an idiosyncratic way of separating hills from each other, Ramsgill Head and Kidsty Pike being a classic case. I have just done a quick Google and Kidsty Pike has a prominence of 15m.
I quite like his eccentricity on this. Helvellyn Lower Man doesn't get a chapter - Stone Arthur does. My favourite is Mungrisedale Common - he treated it as a separate fell, while saying it was "a pudding that has been sat on". Perhaps giving it its own chapter was his idea of a joke. Or maybe it was just to pad out the slim-looking Northern Fells volume.
Sgurr, I hope you had a good holiday in the Lake District, and bagged a few Wainwrights (however they are defined). Over to you!
Tim