The news that Fan y Big
has been deleted from the listing of Hewitts (Hill in England, Wales or Ireland over Two Thousand feet high (609.6m) with a drop
of at least 30m (98.4ft) all round, has been well received by a number of media
outlets and neatly balances the coverage between the Nuttalls and the Hewitts,
both of which I believe are excellent lists.
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| Fan y Big |
The demotion of Fan y
Big has been covered by online media, traditional newspapers and radio, with a
TV appearance of the surveyor (that’s me) only being usurped by a horse that
run amok at the Pembroke show resulting in BBC Wales’ outdoor broadcast van
having to be repositioned at short notice, however BBC Radio Wales had already
invited me to talk about Fan y Big on their Good Evening Wales programme, and
this coupled with a number of online sites reproducing a photo of me looking
much younger than I do in a mirror helped save the day!
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| Looking remarkably young on the summit of Fan y Big |
The online coverage
included the Daily Mail, Metro, BBC Wales, ITV Wales, UKHillwalking, Wales
Online, Countryfile magazine, Sky News, CNN, Yahoo! News, Brecon and Radnor
Express and the Shropshire Star, and thanks to CNN it even made the Hawaii News,
with The Times and the Daily Mirror also covering the news in their newspapers. But once the Associated
Press picked up on the news Fan y Big seemed to go global with amongst others the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and New York Times covering the news.
The contrasting nature of press coverage is summed up by a piece in my local online news outlet; My Welshpool, and by coverage of Fan y Big on the Channel 5 News, one being local and the other national, and both being extremely good. On the day that Channel 5 News filmed from the summit of Fan y Big, Radio 1 covered the news and later prioritised it for their daily Podcast.
The contrasting nature of press coverage is summed up by a piece in my local online news outlet; My Welshpool, and by coverage of Fan y Big on the Channel 5 News, one being local and the other national, and both being extremely good. On the day that Channel 5 News filmed from the summit of Fan y Big, Radio 1 covered the news and later prioritised it for their daily Podcast.
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| Extract from The Times |
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| Extract from The Daily Mirror |
I would like to express
my thanks to Aled Williams for the initial LIDAR analysis of Fan y Big, Alan
Dawson as author of the Welsh Hewitts for acceptance of this result and kindly
giving a number of quotes, and to Dan Bailey at UKHIllwalking for continued
support.
The links to the above
appear below:
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