Nethermost Pike

About Nethermost Pike

Nethermost Pike is the second highest Wainwright in the Helvellyn range after Helvellyn itself, standing near the southern end of the ridge with Helvellyn to the north and High Crag and Dollywaggon Pike to the south. Like most of the range it lies between Thirlmere to the west and the Ullswater catchment to the east; Glenridding and Patterdale are the nearest villages, more than 8 kilometres away.

The fell follows the pattern of its neighbours, with grassy slopes on the west and rocky outcrops on the east. Its rocks belong to the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, and lead was formerly worked on the eastern slopes, leaving both open workings and underground mines.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Nethermost Pike (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 54.519, -3.015. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

11-Nov-18

Drop measured from

NY 3430 1445 · 862.2 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Nethermost Pike is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Helvellyn (950 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 862 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks