Tiny Hill Appreciation
Panoramic view from a tiny hill, Sleat, Isle of Skye, October 2020 A hill bagger is a wonderful thing when you are chronically ill and still want to get out in the great outdoors. Not for them, the vague query "would you like to go out for a walk?" No, if you go out with a hill bagger they will know precisely which hill they wish to summit, where it is, where they will park, how long the walk is, and how steep the climb. Of course, not any hill bagger will do - if their sights are set on the lofty peaks - the Munros, the Corbetts and so on - they are no use at all. What you want is a hill bagger who collects Tumps. A Tump, for the uninitiated, is a hill with 30 metres of prominence - that is a drop of 30 metres on all side. There are approximately 17,000 of these in Britain. No one is ever going to climb them all, but a Tump bagger is always keen to check another one off his list. And as road builders do not restrict roads to the very lowest parts of valleys, the walk from a ...