Unlucky and Imperial...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6921988.stm

Someone fell over after being proposed to on Siabod...

But the beeb manage to get the height of the mountain Wrong. Don't know or
care if the measurement in feet is accurate as i don't posess such an old
map - well actually, i do own a battered 1910 map with no height and
another of north wales that suggests the Feet measurement was accurate at
one point in time.

2 860 feet = 871.728meters

So someone at the Beeb hasn't passed their GCSE maths and gets geographical
information from outdated sources. Great innit?

You are now leaving Pedant's Corner...

T Dave R

p.s. it may well have changed as i've emailed em! Yes, i'm having a quiet
day today and trying to find anything to do rather than tidy my study.
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What hills have i been up recently?
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