Rebecca Batley writes about the skill and courage of Lily Bristow, and how she defied convention to become one of the most famous women to lace up her shoes and head into the Alps.
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News "Most Mountain Heights Are Wrong" says Amateur Surveyor
Research carried out by surveyor Alan Dawson, owner of the Grahams hill list, suggests that Ordnance Survey maps - and the hundreds of guidebooks and websites that rely on them - list the wrong summit height for 'over half' the mountains...
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Press Release Yonder's 'It's a Spring Thing' event in London on Saturday 25th March
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