A point of view

A Matterhorn, a pyramid, a dragon’s back: the peaks of Eryri strike some incredible poses.

Runners-up rarely get the attention they deserve, but two days on Britain’s second-highest peak BEN MACDUI will show you why this is the king of the Scottish hills.

From invisible hills to a mountain that might make you mad...

Secret passages, sheer walls and the maddest descent of a mountain in literary history: SCA FELL might be England’s Number 2 in height – but in kudos, it might just beat all of them.

Skip Wales’ highest peak and head for the runner-up, CARNEDD LLEWELYN . It’s a mountain with history, with attitude, with views, and with more than a few stories to tell.

Jim Perrin remembers the giant of Mull, an elegant outlier leaning seaward