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Ben Nevis has been remeasured, and is even bigger than previously thought http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/18/ben-nevis-britain-highest-mo...

Although it has to be said that the OS in 1946 did make a pretty fair stab at calculating it's height

In reply to Andy Hardy:

Those extra centimetres are going to be a killer.

In reply to Fat Bumbly2:

on the other hand, I climbed further than I thought!

In reply to Andy Hardy:
Surely the height should be floored i.e. rounded down at all times?

Is a peak at 7999.6m an 8000er? Certainly not...

In reply to Andy Hardy:

Our report here: http://www.ukhillwalking.com/news/item.php?id=70337

OK, there's not a lot to report really!

In reply to Removed User:

It is when the tide is out.

In reply to Andy Hardy:

Interesting. I wonder how they can definitively rule out geological action especially given the region is subject to some isostatic rebound. I guess over the years they've found randomly distributed +- errors elsewhere in the region rather than a systematic positive shift across the region. Anyone know for sure?
jk

In reply to Dan Bailey - UKHillwalking.com:

I did look for this story on UKH and failed to find it - hence the thread.

In reply to Andy Hardy:

We were playing catch-up

In reply to Andy Hardy:

Do they measure it to the top of the trig point? I seem to remember from the film "An Englishman who went up a hill and came down a mountain" that mountains are measured to the top of a permanent structure on the top, which would be the top of the trig, but that does seem a bit silly.

This story reminded me of this article, "A probabilistic approach to Munro bagging" which I enjoyed a few years ago.
http://www.hills-database.co.uk/probMunros.html

In reply to Andy Hardy:

If you believe in global warming then the sea level is rising - does that make all mountains shorter ?

In reply to ablackett:


See the video here about why there are brackets.

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/about/media-centre/britain-officially-high...

In reply to DaveHK:

cheers.