Visit our website www.baggingthe... Some spectacular views on today's route as nick tackles the second biggest mountain in the UK, Ben Macdui! Edited by Charlie Henry Hall (charliehall191@gmail.com)
I have been following and got up to this day so far. I am enjoying it largely because of your enthusiasm. I love the hills and have done them many times so it is really nice to see a beginner's perspective. Just one or two points about names. Where 2 names are given nearly always they are the same name, Gaelic and an Englicised pronunciation, for example Fhidhleir and Ealar - "Fiddler" is what the gaelic looks like but Ealar is nearer the mark. Similarly Beinn is the gaelic spelling of Ben, so Ben and Beinn are the same, the latter is not "been". Gailic may seem weird but the pronunciation is more logical than english where spelling and pronunciation are random. The h that appears all over the place in gaelic changes the pronunciation of the consonant before it, very often making it mute as in Fhidhleir where both the fh and the dh are mute. Coire and Choire are the same word with the latter being pronounced more gutterally, but the OS spellings are often so inaccurate that they insert an h where there shouldn't be one, and vice versa. Some very common words: Dearg pronounced jerrag meaning red Dubh pronounced doo meaning black Mor or Mhor pronounced more or voor meaning big Beag or Bheag pronounced beg or veg meaning little Anyway however you pronounce them I am enjoying your videos.
