Schrodinger's Mountain

[Infidel Castro]

It appears that Snowdon/Eryri/Yr Wyddfa is STILL simultaneously in England and in Wales, being as it is the highest peak in both of those fair countries according to nearly every description of it I read and hear (most recently on BBC R5 this am). Schrodinger's Mountain. It's a marvellous thing when you think about it. Is it unique? I don't know of any other mountains that manage this feat.

 

[mrs quoad]

Are you, perchance, reading and listening to shite, OP?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Everest and K2, the two highest mountains above sea level on Earth, for starters.

 

[Steel Icarus]

In fact the top 6 peaks are in two countries

 

[keybored]

The Alps are in like... I dunno, loads of fucking countries. Stop stressing OP, it's obviously A Thing.

 

[Steel Icarus]

The Alps are in like... I dunno loads of fucking countries. Stop stressing OP, it's obviously A Thing.

I remember flying over the Alps on the way to Rome and being astonished they went on for so long. Had it in my head they were sort of one mountain in width in a very long line

 

[belboid]

It is the highest mountain in the place known as England and Wales though.

Better said as England or Wales, in a way, but that just makes it sound like you don’t know which it is in.

 

[ddraig]

Eryri/Yr Wyddfa is in Cymru, that's it

 

[ddraig]

Everest and K2, the two highest mountains above sea level on Earth, for starters.

what does that have to do with the OP?

 

[Ralph Llama]

It`s in Wales and it is NOT better in ANY way to say `England and Wales`.

I love Snowdon I lived on it for a year.

 

[Infidel Castro]

I'm really confused now. What has the Himalayan range got to do with Snowdon?

 

[Steel Icarus]

what does that have to do with the OP?

"Is it unique? I don't know of any other mountains that manage this feat."

 

[JimW]

Don't tell him, (Scafell) Pike.

 

[existentialist]

Maybe it's that Eryri/Yr Wyddfa is in Cymru, but Snowdon's in England-and-Wales?

 

[Infidel Castro]

Scafell Pike is in England. Snowdon is mostly described as being the largest mountain in England and Wales. It's in Wales, not in England. Everyone following?

 

[Infidel Castro]

It`s in Wales and it is NOT better in ANY way to say `England and Wales`.

I love Snowdon I lived on it for a year.

Exactly my point. It's a stupid thing to say. Hence Schrodinger's Mountain.

 

[Infidel Castro]

It is the highest mountain in the place known as England and Wales though.

Better said as England or Wales, in a way, but that just makes it sound like you don’t know which it is in.

Or even better start with Wales, that being the place of Snowdon. But even then it sounds ridiculous

 

[Infidel Castro]

Are you, perchance, reading and listening to shite, OP?

Right now, yes.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Everest and K2, the two highest mountains above sea level on Earth, for starters.

Relevance?

 

[ddraig]

"Is it unique? I don't know of any other mountains that manage this feat."

As in, sometimes described as being in 2 countries but actually only being in 1?

 

[existentialist]

Obviously, it's overweening English jealousy at the fact that Wales dares to have higher mountains than it's got.

 

[JimW]

It's probably the largest mountain on the island of Britain south of the Great Glen if you want another random claim. And the south of Scotland used to be Welsh.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Relevance?

Confused by OP/being tired. Thought you were referring to mountains counted as being in two countries.

 

[ddraig]

It's not even near the border!!
crossposted with cat's bum

 

[Steel Icarus]

As in, sometimes described as being in 2 countries but actually only being in 1?

In that case I put forward Everest as a mountain the other way round - most people think it's in Nepal, I would guess, but it's also in China

 

[Infidel Castro]

Obviously, it's overweening English jealousy at the fact that Wales dares to have higher mountains than it's got.

Hill envy.

 

[fishfinger]

Obviously, it's overweening English jealousy at the fact that Wales dares to have higher mountains than it's got.

Yeah, here in Essex, anything higher than a speed bump is a source of wonder. A mountain would just blow our collective minds.

 

[Ralph Llama]

We do like to mention things we have that the English don`t. But yer...I see the paradox in the statement.

 

[mrs quoad]

Eryri/Yr Wyddfa is in Cymru, that's it

THANKS WE WERE ALL WONDERING.

 

[belboid]

Obviously, it's overweening English jealousy at the fact that Wales dares to have higher mountains than it's got.

Come on, we know we are shit for mountains. Even the one area we have with a lot of the buggers is called the Lake District.