Welsh walkers make a mountain out of a hill
A group of walkers went up a hill and came down a mountain after discovering the official measurement was not correct.
Armed with the latest satellite measuring technology they climbed Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia which had always been 2ft short of the 2,000ft needed to be qualified as a mountain.
But once they reached the summit John Barnard, Myrddyn Phillips and Graham Jackson discovered they had actually climbed one of the world's smallest mountains, because it was 2,000ft AND SIX INCHES.
It took them two hours to take the 7,000 readings required to get an accurate height and they battled winds of 50mph as they approaced the peak.
The 100-year-old estimate of the height will now be corrected making Mynydd Graig Goch Wales’190th official mountain.
Mr Phillips from Welshpool, Powys, said: "It’s fantastic. Nothing like this had happened before.
"We’re very pleased our survey has proved Mynydd Graig Goch is a mountain and not a hill."
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