What Makes A Mountain?

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13/07/2012 at 17:41

That sort of thing is where drawing distinctions about lumps gets tricky. With most british uplands being glaciated at least somewhere, there's normally at leats part of a hill which is pretty dramatic, even when the summit is a broad plateau.

Kinder a classic case of cours, but most of the 'gorms say. Even things like the Arran's and Helvellyn are relatively tame from one side. Maybe their 'mountainous' sides are enough to count, but what about wild boar fell say? Quite a decent scarp on one side, broad hill on the other.

Anyhow, I do actually simply rather like moorland lumps so I'd let them all count  

14/07/2012 at 08:35

One man's mountain is another man's molehill?

It's nothing more than a somantic game, I'll leave those people who care to argue the toss is a silly newspaper all the more space on the top for the rest of us!

14/07/2012 at 09:09

nothing more than a somantic game

Sorry, but...... "sEmantic"

14/07/2012 at 09:19
Pointless indeed I suppose that Olympus mons might be the ultimate degenerate case.....
16/07/2012 at 20:21
I knew I should have spent more time indoors studying when I was younger!
16/07/2012 at 21:16
The highest place in my province (Antwerp, Belgium) is called "Beerzelberg" which means Beerzel Mountain, and it's just 50 m high! Whileas in Scotland they are all called hills...

This discussion should be left to linguists and semanticists, rather than to geographers and walkers...
17/07/2012 at 10:23
50m that is almost a mound. It is certainly subjective based upon what else is in the surrounding area.
17/07/2012 at 23:52
On Canvey Island, on the Thames estuary in Essex, the "Canvey Heights" country park is one of the least accessible areas, is markedly higher than the rest of the island (since most of the rest is below MHW) and offers panoramic views of the whole island and surrounding countryside..... yet it doesn't have a single contour line......
18/07/2012 at 08:50

This thread has sunk from Scafell and Stac Pollaidh to Canvey Island - the discussion has really gone downhill.

22/07/2012 at 07:31
In my view, a mountain is completely distinct from it's surroundings by virtue of the fact that it has steeps sides, rocky outcrops and an obvious summit. Whether it's 600m+ or 600ft is (in my mind) immaterial. True mountains stir something deep within us that's part awe, part wonderment and part determination to climb it before it's too late. Or perhaps that's just me?
22/07/2012 at 16:54
Sounds like most of the Scottish Hills.....they get me a bit like that too.
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