Introduction
Dafydd Andrews – The Welsh 100
Dafydd is the author of a
number of books and for this article he concentrates on his The Welsh 100.
Ronnie Bowron – The Wainwright Summits
Ronnie Bowron’s research into
the position of the Wainwright summits is exhaustive and the definitive guide to
where the contentious summits are placed.
Mark Trengove documents the
setting up of Europeaklist and the expansion to Baggers without Borders and the
aim to list all Chinese peaks with 1,000m prominence.
Alan Dawson compares Munro’s
3000ft Scottish hill list from 1921 against latest available numerical data.
Eric Yeaman documents the
conception and compilation of the Handbook of the Scottish Hills, a list which
revolutionised hill classification.
An account of the fastest known
completion of the P600 summits of Ireland and Britain.
Ronnie Bowron documents the
various listings to Lakeland fells, giving a synopsis of the publication and including
a detailed bibliography.
A celebration of 25 years since
The Lakeland Summits book was published.
Revolutionising hill classification using LIDAR to document over 29,600 hills.
Jon Glew – A Year in the Life of a Hill Bagger
Jon Glew’s amazing 2018 year of hill bagging in words and photos.
Jon Glew’s amazing 2018 year of hill bagging in words and photos.
Dale Vernor examines the
positive affect the great outdoors has on people suffering from addiction and
substance abuse.
Ralph Storer gives details on ultimate
hillwalking possibilities on various planets and by doing so creates a fun
filled article full of fact!
Ronnie Bowron – The Two Thousand Footers of England by W T Elmslie
Ronnie Bowron – The Corbett Twenty Fives
Ronnie Bowron has extensively researched the listing of Twenty Fives produced by John Rooke Corbett, which for the first time has been published in digital format by Haroldstreet.
Dewi Jones explores his life on
the hills and that of being a list ticking hill bagger who ‘bends the lists’.
John Kirk – Geology of and Geological Divisions of Wales
Simon Glover – The Furths and their Compleaters
Carole Engel – Y Pedwarau The Fantastic Fours of Wales
Robin N Campbell examines the
criterion that John Rooke Corbett used for his Scottish list that is now known
as the Corbetts. Robin’s article first
appeared in The Munro Society (TMS) Journal, with a shortened version later appearing
in the SMC Journal. Both articles are
reproduced here and give a fascinating conclusion to the minimum drop Corbett
used for his Scottish list.
Adrian has written several
Irish hill-walking guidebooks for the Collins Press. His first book From High Places: A Journey Through Ireland’s Great Mountains won
the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (OWPG) Award for Excellence in
2011. In this article he relates his
experience of completing the Vandeleur-Lynams and the Arderins.
On Monday 13th
October 2014 Eddie Dealtry completed the Marilyns, becoming only the second
person to do so with the first completion preceding Eddie’s ascent of the St
Kilda sea stacks by only one hour.
Rob is one of the country’s
leading hill baggers with first completions for the Deweys, Clem-Yeamans, Irish
50 Most Prominent, Thousanders, The Fours, Y Pedwarau and the SubMarilyns of
England, Wales and Scotland. His bagging
exploits are now taking him farther afield bagging the world Ultras. In this article Rob details his completion of
the Marilyns on the final two sea stacs of St Kilda.
Aled details the history of
Traeth Mawr which is partly the land re-claimed from the sea close to
Porthmadog in Eryri.
Bernie details the extension of
Eric Yeaman’s Scottish Handbook listing to England and Wales by Clem Clements.
Phil is the website host of
Haroldstreet which is one of the leading and innovative websites for hill
baggers.
Alan has compiled some of the
most important of British hill listings, including the Marilyns, Murdos,
Grahams, Corbett Tops, Graham Tops, Hewitts and Sims. Many people justifiably consider him as
Britain's pre-eminent published hill list author. With the Sims listing he unified the 600m
hills of Britain, he’s now considering doing this for another category of hill.
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