Questions to ask about… Climbing & mountaineering

We tend to think about ‘mountaineering’ in terms of trying to reach the peak of the highest of them all, Mount Everest, or of expeditions such as the one recently completed by the Red Nose Comic Relief team to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro. However, there are actually thousands of hills and peaks across the world which could be called ‘mountains’ and, with the definition of a mountain varying between countries, it can sometimes be difficult for walkers and climbers to categorise what they do. In the UK, we normally think of a mountain as any hill or peak over either 600 or 900 metres, ...