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When it comes to length, most of the UK’s ‘toughest’ climbs are laughable by Alpine standards. Take France’s Col de la Croix de Fer. At 42km it makes Scotland’s 9km Bealach na Bà – the longest climb w

It’s one of the Great Questions of Walking. Are where better to search for an answer than on a Yorkshire peak that asks that question of everyone who climbs it?

Head for Lakeland ’s Northern Fells to bag a couple of easy tops when winter puts more rugged peaks beyond reach.

Take a short but wild wander over Bleaklow’s bleak but high moorland to discover one of the most famous and moving air crash sites in the UK mountains, surrounded by an ocean of rock-studded peatland.

Bag six Wainwrights on this classic Lake District round, ticking off Cat Bells, Maiden Moor, High Spy, Dale Head, Hindscarth and Robinson.