Tameside Peaks and Paths

Peaks and Paths is for walking in hills, not round a park. THE CLIMB Eight flat kilometres along a canal and eight up Scafell Pike are the same number and nothing alike, and the whole difference is in the ascent. So every walk is broken down by gradient — level, rising, climbing, descending — with the seconds and the metres in each, the cumulative ascent and descent, the highest point reached, and a Naismith's-rule estimate held up against the time it actually took. WHERE YOU ARE, IN THE FORM SOMEBODY ASKS FOR IT A six-figure British National Grid reference with its square letters, beside decimal latitude and longitude, with accuracy and altitude and a button to copy it. It is worked out on the phone with no network involved. Outside Great Britain it shows degrees instead. Beside it: who you left word with, where you said you were going, when you are due back, and a button to call them.…