6 20.6km / 12.8 miles / 7-7.5 hours Ascent 1122m/3680ft

Our journey to the highest points of each national park begins on Dartmoor, with a chance to ponder what standing atop a high point really means.

We arrive at the top of High Cup Nick in the North Pennines. “It’s like the world starts just over there,” comments my friend Mark. He’s pointing down the U-shaped chasm of High Cup Gill, beyond whose

4 38.9km / 24.2 miles / 12-14 hours Ascent 2927m/9603ft

3 6.3km/3.9 miles/3-4 hours Ascent 760m/2493ft

The highest peak of the Yorkshire Dales is catastrophically underloved. Let’s fix that.