Imagine a statuesque range of voluptuous hump-backed hills, cloaked in green velvet and rippled by an amplitude of homogeneous ridges sweeping gracefully down to a petticoat of bucolic pastures. Move in closer and a contrast emerges, for the ridges are separated by deeply riven gills, spouting lively streams that give vigour to an otherwise tranquil … Read more
The subject of this Yorkshire Worthy is a noble curving escarpment, dramatically delineating the north western termination of the North York Moors. The extent of the full escarpment is around fifteen miles, although it is the western half that is the most distinctively enjoyable, comprising an undulation of four linked hills – Carlton Moor, Cringle … Read more
Ingleborough was the nearest ‘proper’ mountain to my childhood home and the first over 2,000 feet that I ever climbed. I was twelve years of age and took the bus to Ingleton one very wet winter Sunday. I didn’t see a thing all day and my primitive waterproofs were wholly inadequate, yet the sodden experience … Read more
High Cup Nick is a landscape feature, not a hill, however it occurs on a high escarpment where surrounding summits are of marginal additional altitude and therefore it feels like a hill. Moreover, it’s a unique and compelling upland cynosure and, in my book, that makes it worth travelling to see. Despite the rating of … Read more