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  • The Great Outdoors

    New heights of absurdity

    Oct 09, 2020 3 minutes
    by Roger Smith

    THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. At a time when we should be more aware than ever before of the value of natural beauty and diversity, we have people fighting over who’s next to a cairn.

    I’m referring to Snowdon over the late August Bank Holiday weekend. There were so many people aiming for the top that a queue was forming along the popular routes. When a

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