Any poor innocent who has inadvertently picked up this newsletter out of context - a dentist's waiting room perhaps - might wish to know what it's about. Well, it's about hillwalking (of sorts). A Marilyn is a particular type of hill - it doesn't matter how high it is, but it must have a drop of 150 metres or more on all sides. In other words, a relatively high hill. There are 1551 Marilyns in Britain, and this newsletter is for people who like to climb them. In fact, it's about people who like to climb them so much that they have already climbed 600 or more, and so are eligible for membership of the Marilyn Hall of Fame.
The Marilyns are all listed in a book called The Relative Hills of Britain (RHB) by Alan Dawson, published by Cicerone Press in April 1992. So if you want to know more that's the place to look.
There have been quite a few changes to the list of Marilyns since 1992. Details of these are published in a separate update sheet, which tends to appear in spring each year - most recently in April 1999. In order to ensure that update sheets are distributed along with RHB they have to be restricted to a single sheet of paper. That's not really enough to cover all the news of the burgeoning Hall of Fame, hence the introduction of Marhofn.
