Ben Nevis Has Grown

Hugh Grant Not Involved Shock

If you remember the terrible Hugh Grant film about the Welsh hills, The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain, you’ll be pleased to hear that Mr Grant had nothing to do with the new upgrading of the mountain that is Ben Nevis. The highest mountain in Britain has grown over the last 65 years. Well done Big Man!

Ordinance Surveyed

Those bods at the Ordnance Survey have got out the slide rules, plus the GPS and whatever they use these days and recalculated the elevation and the new height is 1,345 metres, rather than the previous 1,344 metres. Shine a Light So next time you invest in a new map or an Ap it will have the new height. The mountain isn’t actually on the move. There is no Highland shimmy going on, it is merely the tools for measurement have improved since the mountain was last surveyed in 1949. New measurements were made by positioning a survey-grade GPS receiver at the summit of Ben Nevis for two hours.

Data was constantly fed to satellites and then checked by OS experts before being confirmed. The 1940s surveyors hauled up 200 lbs of gear up the mountain everyday for 20 days in whatever the weather was and got pretty darn close to the new height and the surveying was done at night when strong lights were shone on the cairn at the summit to enable triangulation.

Last Chance to Buy

Well all this makes me think that with all the revisions and changes in modern life we should seize the day and have a look at the last chance to buy section on the James Pirie website and take a gander at what their is for the moment, but which won’t be there long. The beautiful Caithness weights are for all tastes and quite a few offer significant savings like the Golden Wedding paperweight. And just think their fifty years has passed so quickly, barely time to measure a mountain in.

 

https://www.jamespirie.com/caithness/last-chance-to-buy.html