High Cup Nick – A Pennine Wonder
High Cup Nick is a landscape feature, not a hill, however it occurs on a high escarpment where surrounding summits are of marginal additional altitude and therefore it feels like a hill. Moreover, it’s a unique and compelling upland cynosure and, in my book, that makes it worth travelling to see. Despite the rating of 64 High Cup Nick therefore gains Worthy status. A combination of geology and glaciation have created this crag rimmed valley deeply incised into the western…