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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

The last remaining hidden secrets of Ben Nevis are to be probed in the most detailed Botanical study ever undertaken on the UK's highest Mountain.

 

Botanists are to be joined by Geologists and Mountaineers to carry out a survey on a remote part the 300- Acre North Face....

 

More here :- http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/ben-nevis-highest-peak-to-undergo-botanical-study-1-3501364

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  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire
  • Weather Preferences: Cool not cold, warm not hot. No strong Wind.
  • Location: N.Bedfordshire, E.Northamptonshire

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

Thought is was odd.. As it didn't work for me either after reading Jax's post. 

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

A team of scientists and mountaineers has made new discoveries on Ben Nevis.

 

Over the past two weeks, The Ben has been the site of one of the most extensive and logistically challenging surveys to have taken place on a Scottish mountain.

Project Manager Tristan Semple, of the Nevis Landscape Partnership, said: "It has been a real privilege to add to the scientific understanding of our most iconic national landmark. The multi-disciplinary team of experts have been abseiling hundreds of metres down cliff faces and using new technology to uncover some of the mountain's remaining secrets. This is only the first stage of a three-year survey and we have already made some very significant finds."

Botanists, geologists, meteorologists and mountaineers have been drawn to the mountain for more than two centuries. However, much of this European designated Special Area of Conservation has remained inaccessible until now. The North Face - around 125 hectares of the mountain – presents a formidable barrier of 600m cliffs, gullies and buttresses.

 

Lots more info here.. http://www.mcofs.org.uk/news.asp?s=2&id=MCS-N11488&nc=Landscape

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

Live now..

 

A day with the botanists and mountaineers surveying the north face of Britain’s highest mountain. From BBC Out of Doors.

 

http://christophersleight.com/notes/997

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

For those who haven't seen it, The Ben Nevis survey from this summer is on the current episode of Landward http://t.co/oH11kw9Sm6

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

http://vimeo.com/111841291

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

The last of the 3 year surveys were completed yesterday on the North Face of Ben Nevis.

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The third year of our mountaineering/geology/botany partnership on Ben Nevis. Reports are being written but we have identified huge new populations of nationally scarce plants (and some first records for Ben Nevis) as well as contributing to a better understanding of the formation of Britain's highest mountain. Thanks to: SNH and Nevis Landscape Partnership for making it possible, Mike of Abacus Mountain guides for putting such a great team together, The Botanical Society of Britian and Ireland and Ian, Matt, Dan and mountain botany's very own Yoda- Gordon, Roddy our insight into geology and all his team from Midland Valley, the Trainee Volunteer Rangers (strong backs and good humour abounded), The John Muir Trust for lending us Ali and Blair, the SMC for the use of the CIC Hut and all my fellow walking leaders and Mountain Instructors for their skill and professionalism and endless good humour and hard work despite the worst that British weather could throw at us (never have so many worn 2 sets of waterproofs at a time to so little effect for so many days) and the various others that volunteered to help out and learn lots on the way. Every now and then you get to be a part of a project where the whole is truly greater than the sum of the parts, the synergy that this project generated was great to feel and results have already been described as truely valuable and extremely exciting.Abacus Mountain Guides Nevis Landscape Partnership

 

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