Friday 14 August 2015

The Definition of Prominence


The following is an extract from an on-line news report relating to Moelwyn Mawr.  It is probably the best definition of prominence ever put forward.



Moelwyn Mawr misses out on towering sequence by reduction than an inch.  A rise needs to be 2,000ft high and have a 15-metre (49ft) tallness disproportion between a limit and a land that connects it to a subsequent tip peak.


A Welsh towering has been downgraded to a towering – after blank out by reduction than an inch.

In a turn on a Hugh Grant film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, surveyors ruled that Moelwyn Mawr in Snowdonia no longer measures adult to a manners set out for summits.

Under central guidelines, a rise needs to be 2,000ft high and have a 15-metre (49ft) tallness disproportion between a limit and a land that connects it to a subsequent tip peak.

Missing out Moelwyn Mawr in Snowdonia no longer measures adult to a manners set out for summits.

But GPS record showed that while Moelwyn Mawr was a healthy 2,350ft high, it was 23 millimetres brief of a limit tallness difference.

Surveyor John Barnard pronounced they had not had information ‘as tighten as this’ before and certified ‘the locals are not going to be gratified with us’.



This exquisite description appeared on the Britain Weekly website

Some news outlets have now rectified their articles that incorrectly applied our survey to Moelwyn Mawr, these include:






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