there are 311 steps - which is plenty. One thing wot peeps don't know is that if you laid the Monument flat it would actually end up exactly on the site of the bakers in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started.

CHOLMONDLEYTRUFACT!

If you like experiences you could always get someone to take you up the Oxo tower:

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/revie...nts/123446.htm

And the Washington Monument has 897 steps, but they don't let you climb it anymore. Too many problems with people having to be pulled out due to being unable to finish the climb. You can climb down, but only with a Park Ranger at 10:30am and 12:30pm most days.

<For the person who said "climbing to the top of tall things for the view" will be the theme of his trip, good luck.>


Conveniently we're both in excellent shape, but I know what you mean. Eventually we'll probably think about a pastries theme, or perhaps something in a "hang around the hotel naked".