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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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CORBETT, n. A name for any Scottish mountain of 2500 feet or over but under 3000 feet in height, 761-914 metres approx. Deriv. Corbett-basher, a person who aims to climb all the Corbetts.Sc. 1952 Sc. Mountaineering Club Jnl. XXV. 45:
The list . . . does not differentiate between “Corbetts” and “tops”.Sc. 1989 Books in Scotland 30 36:
It is written in a breezy offhand manner and will be a must for the Corbett-bashers.Sc. 1997 Derek A. Bearhop ed. Munro's Tables and Other Tables of Lower Hills (new edn) 94:
Visiting the Corbetts will take the hillwalker into a number of unfamiliar or remote areas of the country which a fixation with the Munros would deny. These hills should not be looked upon as lesser cousins but enjoyed in their own right as part of the wealth of diversity of the Scottish landscape. Sc. 2002 Rob Milne and Hamish Brown eds. The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills (2nd edn) 6:
Out of this extensive experience and knowledge came Corbett's eponymous tables in which he listed all those hills of heights between 2500ft (762m) and 3000ft (914.4m) with a drop of at least 500ft (152.4m) between each listed hill and any adjacent higher one. In this way the separation between the Corbetts is more clearly defined than is the case with the Munros where the criterion for separation does not involve a ridgidly fixed drop between adjacent summits ...