Cold on British hills: the Dark Peak and the Cairngorm plateau
40 min
British hills are small by world standards. The Dark Peak moors top out at about 630 m and the Cairngorm plateau at a little over 1,300 m. Neither has glaciers or thin air. Both have killed fit young people in a single night, because both sit in the path of Atlantic weather that brings wind, rain, sleet and snow, often together, to ground with little shelter and few features. This…
In this lesson
The Dark Peak, 1964: the Four Inns walk
What happened
The decisions
What the land offered
What we can learn
The Cairngorm plateau, 1971
The two cases together
Check yourself
Key points
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