I'll kick us off with...
Tete a l'Ane: https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries/mountains/-/medias/6eb8c061-b...
Mt Rundle: https://www.summitpost.org/t-te-l-ane/651057
I feel like I'm dragging the tone down a little here, as your suggestion is actually good, whereas mine...well...isn't 😅
I don't remember that much heather on the Matterhorn!
Let's ban Cnicht from this comparison also...
Sgurr of Eigg https://images.rove.me/w_740,q_85/thcveivgqgcsxugfth21/venezuela-mount-rora...
Mt Roraima https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jVcOg_5E02U/TCUjZW2uRBI/AAAAAAAACwE/Ck-PvTeDEK8/...
They look similar, but one lies in Yr Wyddfadonia and the other does not.
> These two are almost identical:
Come off it! One is covered in snow and the other in eira!
> 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?
> 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...
Boooo! Nonsense, since Brexit... Cnicht is THE Matterhorn and that copy abroad is a fake. We should be banning mentioning the foreign one instead.
The problem with the Matterhorn is that it's a very poor copy of Cnicht:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnicht#/media/File:Cnicht_from_west.jpg
https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-gb/destinations/matterhorn-symbol-for-swit...
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)..
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?!
> Are there any others people can think of beyond Win Hill, Cnicht, Roseberry Topping and Shutlingssloe? Parkhouse Hill perhaps?!
In the Lakes there's Belles Knott:
https://www.ukhillwalking.com/photos/dbpage.php?id=97558
and also the tremendous Matterhorn Rock on Grey Friar:
https://www.stridingedge.net/wp-content/gallery/2015-12-11-grey-friar/610_2...
(I once came across another of these in the back glen between Stob Binnein and Ben More.)
The Craig Leith slope above Alva also bears a certain similarity to the North Face of the Eiger...
I have always thought Schiehallion is a dead ringer for Fuji:
https://rimage.gnst.jp/livejapan.com/public/article/detail/a/00/02/a0002532...
http://greattravelimages.com/uploads/3/4/1/9/34196804/9036569_orig.jpg
> 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
Got you photo captions backwards? Roseberry Topping doesn't have a fancy stone path and Shutlingsloe does't have Mordor in the background...
> 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:
> 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'.
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...
Torres del Paine in Chile and Tre Cima di Lavaredo
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
Hard to do much better than this as a doppelganger for the Matterhorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Assiniboine
Pendle Hill and Uluru, seem uncannily similar.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/quakers/images/pendle_eve.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/ULURU.jpg
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
> 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
> Helm du Geant and Dent Crag
Really tough peaks. Even Wainwright couldn't conquer them.
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.)
Just remembered another pair, Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, and Stac Pollaidh
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9QDeap8-q1UUJ5...
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/mountain-stac-pollaidh-comprising-...
Just remembered another pair, Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, and Stac Pollaidh
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9QDeap8-q1UUJ5...
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/mountain-stac-pollaidh-comprising-...
> 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
> 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.
Roseberry topping has some similarities
Cairn Gorm...and most of the rest of the Cairngorms
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