Peak sugar

A happy accident, Kendal Mint Cake went on to become the world’s best-travelled confectionery, says Harry Pearson

ONE morning, two men sat, tired yet satisfied, at the top of a steep climb. They surveyed the landscape and nibbled on Kendal Mint Cake. It is a scene that has been played out on hilltops across the world over the past 150 years—but here, the two eating the confectionery were Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, perched on the summit of Mount Everest. That Kendal Mint Cake—in this case, the brown variety made by Romney’s—should have become the first sweet to reach the top of the world’s highest peak was not so surprising. After all, the Lakeland treat had been carried on the first European expedition to attempt the climb in 1922, on that occasion produced by Wiper’s. The confectionery’s ascent to becoming the world’s first energy bar began…

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Country Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 12, 2025

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