Hill or a mountain?

[stevefoster]

Ask Hugh Grant, 'The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain'

[FellShoeShuffler]

1000ft is a mountain, which is why there's a tower on Castle Hill in Huddersfield and on Leith Hill in Surrey; to take these nearly mountains to "mountain height".

Will that be 1000 (Yorkshire) feet?

[Guick Dotto]

Ask Hugh Grant, 'The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain'

The elevation in question in that film is just short of 1000 ft so the entire village carries buckets of soil to the top to create a mound to take it above 1000ft so that it will qualify as a mountain. That's Wales, of course, where any serious steepness is referred to as "mountain"; probably a direct translation of mynydd which has a different nuance in Welsh.
Fell is Old Norse for hill/mountain and you can find it in modern Scandinavia as fjell (also as a suffix to some hill names on Rhum as -val)
Of course climbers often nonchalantly refer to Everest as "the hill" and indeed talk about being "on the hill" as a way of expressing the concept of being out...

[Guick Dotto]

Will that be 1000 (Yorkshire) feet?

Yes I think so

[Multiterrainer]

so its the 3 peaks b cat hill race?

...ah but all well over 2000ft - so definitely a cat B mountain race!!

[jmacewan]

In Scotland 'hill' or 'hills' is the term used by most who actually go up there, you would only really hear 'mountain' being used in the media or by non-hillgoing punters.

[stevefoster]

The elevation in question in that film is just short of 1000 ft so the entire village carries buckets of soil to the top to create a mound to take it above 1000ft so that it will qualify as a mountain. That's Wales, of course, where any serious steepness is referred to as "mountain"; probably a direct translation of mynydd which has a different nuance in Welsh.
Fell is Old Norse for hill/mountain and you can find it in modern Scandinavia as fjell (also as a suffix to some hill names on Rhum as -val)
Of course climbers often nonchalantly refer to Everest as "the hill" and indeed talk about being "on the hill" as a way of expressing the concept of being out...

Sod Hugh Grant, never liked him anyway, ask GD instead

[Stolly]

so its the 3 peaks b cat hill race?

Aha! No.....