19.5km/12 miles/6 hours
Ascent 560m/1837ft
Andrew Galloway goes in search of the wreckage of aeroplanes
JUST NORTH of the trig point at Higher Shelfstones, a piece of twisted aluminium lies on black peat, shining in sunlight as if newly cast. But it’s lain here on the moor for 70 years. It takes a while to orientate yourself amongst the wreckage. The fragments of an aeroplane begin to knit together to form a whole: four engines, undercarriage, wings, tail-plane. This USAF Boeing RB-29, , was taking payroll and mail from Scampton, Lincs to the supply base
