![]() Lower down the slope, the debris from this ancient landslide hasn’t stabilised yet. Mam Tor from the east, showing the steep upper part of the south-eastern face ![]() A huge landslide occurred on this slope several thousand years ago, forming the steep scarp just below the summit. Mam Tor is also known locally as ‘Shivering Mountain’, because of the frequent landslips on its unstable south-eastern face. Mam Tor is a distinctive dome-shaped hill, standing 517 metres (over 1600 feet) above sea level and about 350 metres (about 1000 feet) above the valley floor, and with an impressively steep south-eastern face (marked with crag symbols on the map, and visible on the right of the picture below). ![]() Mam Tor is a prominent hill in the Derbyshire Peak District, part of the ridge forming the southern rim of the Edale valley (see earlier post on Edale). ![]()
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