This year’s challenge is perhaps a little harder than the last couple (by popular demand I should add) and is one for the fellrunner with a well-rounded knowledge of the United Kingdom’s hills and mountains. The answer to each clue is the name of a hill or mountain. Fill them in on the answer sheet along with their heights (in metres). I have used the OS approved heights. Transpose the digits into the three rows below using the letter code (the first one has been done as an example) and this will give you three 10 figure grid references. These points should form the corners of an equilateral triangle in classic DPFR territory. The whisky and other goodies are located at the exact centre point of this triangle. If your three points don’t form an equilateral triangle (or its centre is in suburban Nuneaton or some such spot) you have gone wrong. Please keep any Strava routes that take in this whisky stash private for the time being to preserve the challenge. Any problems or queries then get in touch.
Merry Christmas, good luck and happy hunting…
Tom Brunt, December 2025
- More generous lookout – a local one… (6, 5)
- Part of an icon I value in the far north (7)
- Tree and burial mound together making Bob’s crux perhaps? (9)
- Ringer is not well in Cumbria (3, 4)
- Wild ghoul or binge in Yorkshire (11)
- Southern aristocrat’s appendage (4, 9, 4)
- Brew large teabag losing article (about 3 hours after Number 3) (5, 5)
- Easy catch, horsedrawn vehicle and Ian Lavender’s most famous character (11, 4)
- English flower with fruit and icing in the northeast (9, 7)
- Kim Philby on the summit? (4,3)
- Giant wrestler, a Cumbrian one… (9)
- Highest point on a church above Ennerdale (7)
- Heather and berry after close making one of the few peaks in the Peak (12)
- Partially in the dark led astray on a fine Corbett (5)
- Rose and devil rearranged hill near Newcastle (6, 6)
- Some of you must try fantastically hard in North Wales (6)
- I chase on hill – bizarrely an attempt to weigh the Earth took place here (12)
- Local fish – no it’s in the Lakes (9, 4)
- Could this Lakeland summit put you in contention for the Pertex? (5, 6)
- Definite article with wild vice hot on the Pennine Way (3, 7)
- Land with beer brewed for a Scottish giant (3, 5)
- Last of 42 for the Swiss family (8)
- Toss caber with wild hair – it’s a big one… (9)
- …might be needed to repair your Inov-8s north of the border (3, 7)
- Chair has highly unsuitable fellrunning footwear in the Lakes (4, 6)
