Is it to do with the height or some other classification?
2006-09-12 05:45:38 · 23 answers · asked by paulreiki 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
When does a hill become a mountain?
Generally speaking, something is considered a hill if it is less than 300 m (1000 ft) from its base to its summit. However, a hill is also generally more limited in extent than a mountain, as well as more rounded than rugged. The distinctions, of course, are arbitrary, and the notions of hill and mountain can vary from one region to another.
2006-09-12 05:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by melookinpanub 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Height - it's all covered in the film "The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain". It's all about this Welsh village who are proud of their nearby mountain which is the smallest mountain in the world (or something equally tedious) but then a bunch of ordanance surveyors announce that it has shrunk and it's a few metres below the required height to be a mountain. So the villagers get Hugh Grant and he helps dump a load of earth on top of the hill to make it a mountain. Then he comes back down again, hence the slightly long winded nature of the title.
It's marginally more exciting than it sounds.
2006-09-12 06:08:02 · answer #2 · answered by chris_ninety1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the UK, the minimum height for a mountain is 1000m above sea-level, so when a small village in Wales discovered their 'Mountain' was several metres too small, they carried masses of dirt from their back gardens up to the top of the hill overnight, and magically the mountain grew several metres and the hill was officially declared a mountain!!
2006-09-12 05:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here's a little factoid..,
A true "Mountain" to be defined as such , MUST HAVE a timberline.
Hence ,if trees can and do grow at whatever level you are contemplating as a mountain..., it is not !!!
I am not certain of the elevation that trees stop growing and you would have year round snow at...,
But there really are none here in America.
2006-09-12 05:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by bigbill4u 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term hill or mountain is arbitrary. Hills are usually less than 3,000 feet but mountains are larger.
2006-09-12 05:52:01 · answer #5 · answered by Frank 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A hill becomes a mountain when I can't get over it
2006-09-12 05:51:34 · answer #6 · answered by joepublic101 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My classification is it becomes a mountain if you are too knackered to climb all of it, or it takes moe than half and hour to climb!
2006-09-12 05:51:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All my hills become mountains in my mind.
2006-09-12 06:03:26 · answer #8 · answered by Desi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Watch, 'The Englishman that went up a hill, and came down a mountain'! legendary film. lol.
2006-09-12 06:12:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Its a shame I don't speak too my ex, he could answer this, he's brilliant at making mountains out of mole hills!
2006-09-12 05:57:37 · answer #10 · answered by julie s 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋