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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Pete Wise

Which brollies make sturdy investments and which are flimsy flappers? I hiked up a Peak District hill to find out

Pete tests umbrellas on Mam Tor
Our writer became a ‘gorpcore Mary Poppins’ in the Derbyshire countryside. Photograph: Christian Hopewell/The Guardian

How naive I was, during the car journey to Mam Tor, to wonder whether it would be windy enough for testing umbrellas on this Peak District hill’s 517-metre summit.

It was blowing a gale – or more accurately, a “near gale”, if weather apps are to be believed – and the three of us who rendezvoused at the triangulation point could barely stand in one place.

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