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Three Peaks, Ten Tors Ronald Turnbull

Three Peaks, Ten Tors par Ronald Turnbull

Three Peaks, Ten Tors Ronald Turnbull

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Résumé

A guidebook to the best UK challenge walks. The 15 routes include the 3 peaks (National, Yorkshire & Lancashire), Dartmoor Ten Tors, the Lyke Wake Walk, Across Wales Walk, the Lairig Ghru, the Exmoor Hundred, the Welsh 3000s, Lakes 3000s and the Cairngorm 4000s. With notes on planning, schedules, how to choose the challenge and much more.

Three Peaks, Ten Tors Résumé

Three Peaks, Ten Tors: And other challenging walks in the UK Ronald Turnbull

A guidebook to 15 of the best challenge walking routes in the UK - with both serious and humorous approaches, There are routes throughout the country, including the National Three Peaks Challenge, the Yorkshire and the Lancashire Three Peaks, the Dartmoor Ten Tors, the Lyke Wake Walk, the Derwent Watershed, Across Wales Walk, the Lairig Ghru, the Exmoor Hundred, the Welsh 3000s, Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops, the Cairngorm 4000s, the Mourne Seven Sevens, and Tranter's Walk.

This book looks at what it takes to do a long-distance or challenge walk - the mental toughness, experience, the slight madness - plus notes on planning, schedules and the challenges of undertaking these routes. The author intersperses sound advice with wry recollections of his experience of the National Three Peaks Challenge and many other challenges he has experienced throughout the British Isles.

Suitable for aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, the guide provides tips on how to minimise the suffering, stay safe, raise money for charity and find a surprising amount of enjoyment along the way. Old hands will enjoy comparing their experiences with the author's reminiscences of the highs and lows of long-distance routes. The book also includes suggestions for new 'three peaks' and other long-distance routes.

Three Peaks, Ten Tors Avis

'This is another excellent guide by Cicerone in which Ronald Turnbull takes a look both serious and humorous at what it takes to do a long-distance or challenge walk. Ronald, veteran of many a long-distance and challenge walk intersperses sound advice with wry recollections of his experience of the National Three Peaks Challenge and other such routes throughout the British Isles. For aspiring or novice long-distance walkers, this guide provides tips on how to minimise the suffering, to stay safe, to raise money for charity perhaps, and to find a surprising amount of enjoyment along the way. Old hands will enjoy comparing their experiences with the author's reminiscences of the highs and lows of long-distance routes.' (Keswick Reminder / March 2007)'Extensive tips are given, including on how to approach the challenges, safety, raising money for charity and enjoying the experiences.The style is light although the seriousness of the challenges is conveyed. Interspersed throughout the text are Turnbull's experiences and reminiscences, many of them in a humerous vien. It is evident that he is a member of the Fell Runners' Association.For anyone with an interest in challenge walks, this is an interesting, amusing and informative read.'(Irish Mountain Log / Summer 2007)

À propos de Ronald Turnbull

Ronald Turnbull lives close to the Carsphairn and Lowther Hills. He was one of the first people to walk the Southern Upland Way. He is a runner as well as a walker, and in 1986 was awarded the Long Distance Trophy of the Fell Running Association for a non stop journey over the 148 hills of Southern Scotland. Outside the Southern Uplands he walks, climbs and runs in the Highlands and sometimes in England.

Sommaire

Key to Route Maps Map: Location of the Walks Introduction PART I: THE NATIONAL THREE PEAKS CHALLENGE 1 Introducing the Three Big Hills Ben Nevis Scafell Pike Snowdon 2 The National Three Peaks Challenge: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon within 24 hours Planning The route: Ben Nevis The route: Scafell Pike The route: Snowdon Variants 3 The National Three Peaks Challenge by Public Transport The good, the bad, and the mystery socks Challenges and the imagination The Three Peaks by bus PART II: THREE PEAKS RATHER CLOSER TOGETHER 4 The Yorkshire Three Peaks: Pen-y-ghent, Whernside, Ingleborough Route and schedule Adventures of the invisible worm - a winter's night on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Up Ingleborough underground 5 The Lancashire Three Peaks: Longridge Fell, Easington Fell, Pendle Pen-y-ghent - or Pendle? Route and schedule 6 Everywhere has Three Peaks in it Peaks in threes The Three Peaks of Somerset: Dunkery Beacon, Periton Hill, Selworthy Beacon The Marilyns: 1554 hills you probably haven't heard of PART III: MORE AND MOOR 7 A Weakness for Bleakness 8 The Dartmoor Ten Tors: 50 Miles of Moorland over Two Days History and geography Ten Tors for grown-ups 9 Mastery of Misery: The Lyke Wake Walk The easiest walk in England? Route and schedule 10 The Derwent Watershed: 39 Miles in the Dark Peak For Peat's sake Route and schedule 11 The Across Wales Walk: From the English Border to the Sea over Plynlimon Walking across Wales Brief route and schedule 12 The Lairig Ghru: The Great Through-route of the Cairngorms Through the Ghru Route and schedule PART IV: SURVIVAL 13 Time and Space: The Fundamentals 14 Fifty from your Front Door: A Southern Upland Story 15 A Hundred Miles at Once: Two Days and Nights over Exmoor The Exmoor Hundred Survival skills: Sore legs and feeling sick PART V: RIVER DEEP MOUNTAIN HIGH 16 The Welsh 3000s: 15 Peaks in One Day Brief route and schedule Foel-fras to Snowdon with extra fun 17 The Lakes at Length: Lakes 3000s and Old County Tops Stuffing the daffodils Lakes 3000s brief route and schedule Old County Tops brief route and schedule 18 The Cairngorm 4000s: Five Granite Giants in a Day Brief route and schedule Getting the wind up 19 The Mourne Seven Sevens: All Northern Ireland's 700m Peaks Brief route and schedule Mourne is never less 20 Tranter's Walk: 18 Munros around Glen Nevis The freedom to fall Brief route and schedule 21 Start/Finish Appendix 1 Information and Internet Appendix 2 Walks Summary Index

Informations supplémentaires

GOR003863810
9781852845018
1852845015
Three Peaks, Ten Tors: And other challenging walks in the UK Ronald Turnbull
Ronald Turnbull
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Cicerone Press
20100603
256
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