Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 14 July 2021

  • Yorkshire’s Matterhorn

    Yorkshire’s Matterhorn

    A rushed snap as I pedalled home along Easby Lane. I don’t know who first compared Roseberry Topping with the Matterhorn. I traced one reference to 1890 but suspect it was already well in use. It is likely that the comparison dates from a few decades earlier following the first ascent of the ‘real’ Matterhorn…