Guest Contributor

Introduction

If you would like to contribute an article please contact me via the email on the About Me page heading.  The only two stipulations I make are that the article has to be hill related and that I don't end up in court through its publication!  Otherwise the choice of subject matter is down to the Guest Contributor.

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 – Europeaklist

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 – How accurate was Munro?

Alan Dawson compares Munro’s 3000ft Scottish hill list from 1921 against latest available numerical data.

Eric Yeaman – Birth of Handbook of the Scottish Hills

Eric Yeaman documents the conception and compilation of the Handbook of the Scottish Hills, a list which revolutionised hill classification.

Liam Chase – British Isles 600m Prominent Mountains Bagging

An account of the fastest known completion of the P600 summits of Ireland and Britain.

Ronnie Bowron – The History of Lake District Hill Lists

Ronnie Bowron documents the various listings to Lakeland fells, giving a synopsis of the publication and including a detailed bibliography.

Tim Synge – The Synges

A celebration of 25 years since The Lakeland Summits book was published.

Joe Nuttall – LIDAR analysis

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.

Dale Vernor – The Great Outdoors and its Impact on Mental Health

Dale Vernor examines the positive affect the great outdoors has on people suffering from addiction and substance abuse.

Ralph Storer – Hillwalking on Pluto

Ralph Storer gives details on ultimate hillwalking possibilities on various planets and by doing so creates a fun filled article full of fact!

Ralph Storer – The Height of the Matter

Ralph Storer details the evolution of height measurement amongst the hills.





Ronnie Bowron – The Two Thousand Footers of England by W T Elmslie

Ronnie Bowron has digitised W T Elmslie’s list of The Two Thousand Footers of England and it has been published by the Haroldstreet website.





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 – Life on the Hills

Dewi Jones explores his life on the hills and that of being a list ticking hill bagger who ‘bends the lists’.

Steve Smith – Evolution of a Hill Bagger

Steve Smith shares his experience of the completion of the Nuttalls, which are the 2,000ft mountains of both England and Wales.





John Kirk – Geology of and Geological Divisions of Wales

John Kirk examines the geological make-up of Wales from the complexity of Anglesey in the north to the Carboniferous area in the South Wales Valleys.  This detailed analysis determines the Geological Divisions of the country.





Simon Glover – The Furths and their Compleaters

Simon Glover has extensively researched The Furths and documents their listing and compleaters on his blog.  This article concentrates on these 3,000ft mountains and details aspects of the people who have completed an ascent of The Furths.





Carole Engel – Y Pedwarau The Fantastic Fours of Wales

Carole Engel is the third known person to complete Y Pedwarau – the 400m hills of Wales.  In this article she details her experience of the Pedwarau, from her discovery of the list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, to its re-evaluation as a co-authored list and publication by Europeaklist.

Robin N Campbell – Corbett’s Criterion

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 Hendroff – Completing the Vanlyns and Arderins

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.

Richard Moss – Ted Moss (1907-1987) and All Those Two-Thousands

Two articles by Richard Moss, the first a biography of his father; Ted Moss, who was one of the most important of the early hill listers, and the second an account of Richard’s completion of his father’s English and Welsh 2,000fts.

John Kirk – Mountain Nationality–Time to have a Beef and take a Stand!

John has compiled some of the more progressive hill lists ever produced and in this post he tackles a subject close to his heart; that of Mountain Nationality and the concept of Dual National Hills.

Eddie Dealtry – Carn Liath,Creag an Dail Bheag is ‘where it’s at’. Learning to bag a hill, from Snowdon to Stac Lee

On Monday 13^th 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 Woodall – Over the Wall–Success on the St Kilda Stacs, 13 Oct 2014

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 Williams – The Islands of Traeth Mawr

Aled details the history of Traeth Mawr which is partly the land re-claimed from the sea close to Porthmadog in Eryri.

Bernie Hughes – A Plea for Historical Lists; Yeamans and Clems

Bernie details the extension of Eric Yeaman’s Scottish Handbook listing to England and Wales by Clem Clements.

Phil Newby - Haroldstreet

Phil is the website host of Haroldstreet which is one of the leading and innovative websites for hill baggers.

Alan Dawson – Surveying is a Doddle

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.