Britain’s 40 Finest Mountains – the Top 10

Following the publication, by The Great Outdoors magazine, of their “Britain’s 40 Finest Mountains” supplement, the magazine’s staff canvassed attendees of the 2018 Kendal Mountain Festival to find out their opinions as to which should be top of the list.

It was acknowledged that the list might be skewed against Scottish mountains because the festival was south of the border.  Despite that, it is a reasonably impressive list.

1              Tryfan

2              Buachaille Etive Mor

3              Great Gable

4              Cader Idris

5              Helvellyn

6              Lochnagar

7              Cnicht

8              Moel Siabod

9              An Teallach

10           Schiehallion

I would argue against the inclusion of Cnicht and Moel Siabod; they’re good hills but I suspect that their accessibility to major centres of populations ensured their prominence.

I’m also surprised that neither Snowdon nor Ben Nevis made the top 10 but perhaps their 3 Peaks notoriety went against them.

And also the exclusion of any or all of the Torridon giants was a bit of an eye-opener.

For the record, I’ve ticked 7 of the 10 with the outstanding 3 all being in Scotland.