Half way up, and towards the very top of the Tor and beyond however, it can be blowing an absolute gale, with the kind of freezing wind that can leave you feeling dizzy and disorientated. It does leave you wondering how they fared back then… Whilst down in the sheltered car park it can seem like you are visiting on a calm and tranquil day. My mountain goat children didn’t find scaling Mam Tor much of an effort thankfully, probably because it’s nothing in comparison to what we have made them climb in the past, but there’s plenty to keep less enthusiastic climbers (however old they might be) occupied on the way up… As it was home to both Bronze and Iron age hill forts, keep an eye out for the visible barrow at the top (there is another one, but it’s under the summit now), and the little tiny bronze inlays that line the route with symbols harking back to such times. In fact, if you get lost (like we did) on the way there, you might happen upon a road that suddenly brings you to the now abandoned A625 – the government was forced to close back in the late seventies after a number of landslides over the years took their toll… It has quite a surreal and rather eerie feel to it now, but is super popular with mountain bikers and ramblers today… Mam Tor is also aptly known as the Shivering Mountain thanks to frequent shale landslides on its eastern side. The ridge along the summit can be made a lengthy walk of if you’re feeling really energetic, and having seen several amazing sunrise images on instagram, I am more than tempted to go back and trek much further to see if I can capture the same myself! When you get to the very top, the views are worth any amount of huffing and puffing, stretching out over the Edale Valley and Kinder Scout on one side, and the Hope Valley to the other. The name Mam Tor translates pretty much to what you imagine it might – Mother Hill – and at only 517 metres high, it’s not too much of a struggle to scale from the National Trust car park below… We decided to make a day of it by scaling the wild and beautiful Mam Tor first however, as it’s just a stone’s throw up the road, and it would have been rude not to. That’s not the kind of recommendation you get every day obviously, and of course, once mentioning the name of this place to the Small People it was nudged very firmly to the top of our to do list (as is the tradition in our house it seems)… On popping over to meet Brutus (obviously not his real name, but believe me it suits him!) and have a quick bite of lunch with us recently (one really good thing about moving back!) my friend Trish from Mum’s Gone To happened to mention that whilst we were in the Peaks, we had to put The Devil’s Arse on our list of things to see. 6 groups of micro-calcifications (as in the above) with a clinically realistic breast tissue feature.Coming back to the UK, it’s been really useful to call on the advice of other travel blogging friends about visiting areas that are new to us, and slightly interrogating them on their must see things.6 groups of 3, low contrast details groups.6 groups of multi-directional filaments.The lower (right) half simulates the appearance of breast tissue and contains micro-calcification in addition to fibrous and nodular details. These are sensitive to the mammographic grey-scale, noise and unsharpness, and can be used to obtain an image-quality “score”. The top (left) half contains a range of filaments, micro-particles and low-contrast details, representing pathological features in the breast. This test object is supplementary to TOR MAS or TOR MAX and provides a more “natural” image which may be preferred by radiographers and radiologists. An ongoing record of these numbers will reveal any trend towards deterioration in imaging performance. TOR MAM mammography phantom is designed to be used quickly and easily on a routine basis to provide an ongoing check of imaging performance, particularly those aspects which are most liable to deterioration.