Mountain Doppelgangers

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In reply to Removed User:

I feel like I'm dragging the tone down a little here, as your suggestion is actually good, whereas mine...well...isn't 😅


Removed User 24 Jan 2023
In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKClimbing:

I don't remember that much heather on the Matterhorn!

Let's ban Cnicht from this comparison also...

 FactorXXX 24 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

These two are almost identical:


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Removed User 24 Jan 2023
In reply to FactorXXX:

They look similar, but one lies in Yr Wyddfadonia and the other does not.

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In reply to FactorXXX:

> These two are almost identical:

Come off it! One is covered in snow and the other in eira!

 FactorXXX 24 Jan 2023
In reply to John Stainforth:

> Come off it! One is covered in snow and the other in eira!

Are you trying to say that one is in winter condition and that the other one isn't?

 pec 24 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

> I don't remember that much heather on the Matterhorn!

You're absolutely right, we all there's snow on the Matterhorn

https://www.steveniceton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Roseberry-Topping...

 CantClimbTom 25 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

Boooo! Nonsense, since Brexit... Cnicht is THE Matterhorn and that copy abroad is a fake. We should be banning mentioning the foreign one instead.

 deepsoup 25 Jan 2023
In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKClimbing:

I don't know my mountains that well, but on the subject of "English hills that are often compared to the Matterhorn" (which seems to be what this thread is about now anyway)..


In reply to deepsoup:

I feel like I owe Hardonicus an apology for dragging the tone of the thread down, but your post - and the various others - is making me think that there's a high quality piece of editorial to be done on where the real Matterhorn actually is (and as we all know, it's certainly NOT in Zermatt).

Are there any others people can think of beyond Win Hill, Cnicht, Roseberry Topping and Shutlingssloe? Parkhouse Hill perhaps?!

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 Dave Hewitt 25 Jan 2023
 Moacs 25 Jan 2023
In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKClimbing:

> I feel like I'm dragging the tone down a little here, as your suggestion is actually good, whereas mine...well...isn't 😅

I can go lower:

Mount Judd and Dundee's Law have never been seen in the same room

 CantClimbTom 25 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

Pen y fan and Mount Ingleborough?


 wintertree 25 Jan 2023
In reply to deepsoup:

Got you photo captions backwards?  Roseberry Topping doesn't have a fancy stone path and Shutlingsloe does't have Mordor in the background...

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 deepsoup 25 Jan 2023
In reply to wintertree:

> Got you photo captions backwards?

Yes.  Some other posters above have done it too. 

It's a joke.  Admittedly only just, but it's a very long-running traditional joke in the letter pages of Private Eye. 
eg:

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In reply to tlouth7:

> I have always thought Schiehallion is a dead ringer for Fuji:

Only from that angle. It's actually not a cone at all but a long ridge:

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/perthshire/schiehallion.shtml

Scroll down to see the picture opposite 'Stage 4'.

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 Hugh Simons 25 Jan 2023
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Matterhorn:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn#/media/File:Matterhorn_from_Domh%C...

Tititea / Mt Aspiring:
https://www.mountainwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/smaller-Mount-Aspi...

The "Matterhorn of the Southern Alps" gives it away slightly...

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 Philb1950 26 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

Torres del Paine in Chile and Tre Cima di Lavaredo

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In reply to Removed User:

Lowly Belles Knott above Easdale Tarn in the Lakes

and 

Mighty Herbetet in the Gran Paradiso massif (by far the best mountain that I failed to climb)

https://wildaboutwalking.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/007-2.jpg

https://wildaboutwalking.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/301_herbetet.jpg

 Robms 30 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

Hard to do much better than this as a doppelganger for the Matterhorn  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Assiniboine 

 CantClimbTom 30 Jan 2023
In reply to Robms:

Meh. Looks nothing like the Matterhorn, we all know the foreign imposter Matterhorn has a silhouette of a bear (rampant) on the side of it

 Babika 31 Jan 2023
In reply to Moacs:

> I can go lower:

> Mount Judd and Dundee's Law have never been seen in the same room

Wow I didn't know anyone else on here would know Mount Judd? Well done - that's a dead ringer for Mount Toblerone 

 Bottom Clinger 31 Jan 2023
In reply to Robms:

Helm du Geant and Dent Crag


 Lankyman 31 Jan 2023
In reply to Bottom Clinger:

> Helm du Geant and Dent Crag

Really tough peaks. Even Wainwright couldn't conquer them.

 Dave Hewitt 31 Jan 2023
In reply to Removed User:

It's not quite the same thing, but the two windiest hill days I've ever had (completely pinned down for a while each time) have been on Ben Chonzie and Skiddaw, both in March and - semi-relevant to the discussion - both 931m and big broad-shouldered domes of hills with not very much to impede a proper gale. (Thought of this having had another crawling episode on Chonzie today.)

 profitofdoom 18 Feb 2023
In reply to Dave Hewitt:

> It's not quite the same thing, but the two windiest hill days I've ever had......

It will be hard to beat the record on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, 231 mph in 1934. Can you imagine trying to stand up or walk in that 

 Dave Hewitt 18 Feb 2023
In reply to profitofdoom:

> It will be hard to beat the record on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, 231 mph in 1934. Can you imagine trying to stand up or walk in that 

That would be well beyond the point when you would quite likely die. I've had several very windy outings to Ben Chonzie (the standard way back to the Lednock side starts by heading straight into any SW gale for a kilometre or so, across more or less level ground at 900m), but the one that was undoubtedly the windiest was a mid-March day in 2009. Had real trouble getting off the hill - the first 200 yards back from the summit took 20 minutes, almost all of it on hands and knees and quite a bit of it completely pinned down. Eventually managed to shuffle sideways to a slight lee slope and make progress from there, but it wasn't straightforward even then. Later saw that there had been a 125mph gust recorded in Glen Ogle. It was a late-winter day with slushy snow, and I remember thinking that on similar ground 300m higher - say the Cairngorm plateau - with ice rather than slush and with proper cliffs nearby to be blown over, it wouldn't have been survivable.

 David Cowley 18 Feb 2023
In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKClimbing:

Roseberry topping has some similarities 

 Bulls Crack 22 Feb 2023
In reply to Removed User:

Cairn Gorm...and most of the rest of the Cairngorms


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