Marilyn (mountain)

Map of the captured Marilyns in the British Isles

As Marilyn of Wanderführer author, after a proposal Alan Dawson mounds or bumps on the British Isles denotes that a relative height or Vertical separation of at least 150 meters (492 English foot have). A total of Marilyns have been identified so far in 2009, 1216 in Scotland , 455 in Ireland (66 of them in Northern Ireland), 176 in England , 157 in Wales and 5 on the Isle of Man . The name Marilyn was coined by A. Dawson in reference to the American actress Marilyn Monroe , whose last name is a homophone to denote Munro for all Scottish mountains that are over 3000 ft high.

Demarcation

While many of the highest mountains in the British Isles are Marilyns, such as Ben Nevis , Scafell Pike and Snowdon , other well-known mountains, including some Munros , are not. For example, The Devil's Point , Bowfell , Langdale Pikes and Carnedd Dafydd lack the relative altitude to be included in the list. Other mountains on the edge of the Lake District can be found in the list because they are isolated from the high mountains. Some of the Marilyns are not mountains in the true sense of the word , so the highest point of the Weald , a Marylin, is in the city of Crowborough , not a real "mountain area" in the traditional sense of the word. At the extremes and the 172 m high including Stac Lee and the 191 m high Stac an Armin , two surf piers in St Kilda - archipelago 130 km west of Scotland, both of which are classified as Marilyn.

For tourists, the hills are visited by so-called peak excavators , with the aim of climbing as many as possible and putting yourself on a list. In 2014, climber Rob Woodall was the first to climb all of the 1556 Marilyns identified in the United Kingdom. It took him 22 years to do this. In 2016, Jenny Hatfield was the first woman to do so.

See also

• Munro , Corbett , Donald , Graham , Nuttall , Hewitt , Wainwright

literature

• Alan Dawson: The Relative Hills of Britain. Cicerone Press, Milnthorpe 1992, ISBN 1-85284-068-4 , online ( Memento of December 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
• ED Clements: The Hewitts and Marilyns of Ireland. TACit Press, Alva 1998, ISBN 0-9522680-8-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steven McKenzie: Marilyn bagger from Peterborough scratches 22 year itch , BBC, October 15, 2014 , accessed February 20, 2019
2. ↑ First woman completes all UK's 'Marilyn' hills , BBC, September 26, 2016 , accessed February 20, 2019

Web links

• Marilyn News Center u. a. News of changes in the list of mountains