Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 - Adam and Naomi take on Slieve Donard - December 2002 -

These pictures are from the summit of Slieve Donard, the highest peak of the Mournes, and indeed Northern Ireland, at 2,796 feet. There are ten summits in the Mournes over 2000 feet and the range covers around 80 square miles of unspoilt mountain and moorland scenery. They are volcanic in origin, then carved into horseshoe valleys by glaciation, but with rocky outcrops, called nunataks, that poked through the ice-sheet and escaped the scouring effect of the retreating glaciers. They aren't huge, none of the peaks reaches the 3000 foot mark, but they are dramatic and shapely, and the Mourne Wall, which runs like a scaled-down version of the Great Wall of China over the summits, is a highly-distinctive feature.