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The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the largest database of mountains in Britain and Ireland; Hill Bagging, the online version of the DoBIH; MountainViews, A similar organisation to the DoBIH offering a suite of lists for all Ireland; MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database, a searchable database for the MountainViews lists
As of 31 December 2023, 7,654 people had climbed all 282 Scottish Munros, [11] as of April 2020 eleven people had climbed all 1556 Marilyns of Great Britain, [h] [12] while as of October 2022 only five people had climbed all the 2532 Simms of Great Britain, [i] Ken Whyte (Cruachan Beag 21/09/2010), Iain Thow (Cut Hill 07/06/2015), Michael ...
The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the largest database of mountains in Britain and Ireland; Hill Bagging, the online version of the DoBIH; MountainViews, A similar organisation to the DoBIH offering a suite of lists for all Ireland; MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database, a searchable database for the MountainViews lists
The encirclement parent is found by tracing the contour below peak A's key col and picking the highest mountain in that region. This is easier to determine than the prominence parent; however, it tends to give non-intuitive results for peaks with very low cols such as Jabal Shams which is #110 in the list.
23 (The tallest peak in Great Britain and Scotland) Ben Nevis: 1,345 metres (4,413 ft) Scotland: The tallest peak in Wales: Snowdon: 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) Wales: The tallest peak in England: Scafell Pike: 978 metres (3,209 ft) England: The tallest peak in Northern Ireland: Slieve Donard: 850 metres (2,789 ft) Northern Ireland
The North of England includes the country's highest mountains, in the Lake District of Cumbria. This was one of the first national parks to be established in the United Kingdom, in 1951. The highest peak is Scafell Pike, 978 m (3,209 ft) above sea level, and at least three other summits exceed 3,000 feet or 914.4 metres making them Furth Munros.
Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland that are furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland, and which would otherwise qualify as Scottish Munros or Munro Tops. [14] [65] They are sometimes referred to as the Irish, the English or the Welsh Munros. There are 34 furths; 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland and six in England. The highest is Snowdon. Of ...
Scafell Pike (/ ˈ s k ɔː f ɛ l p aɪ k /) [2] is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has an elevation of 978 metres (3,209 ft) above sea level, making it the highest and the most prominent mountain in England. [1] [3] The mountain is part of the Scafell massif, [4] an extinct volcano, [5] and is one of the ...