0 a type of hard sweet, flavoured with peppermint, sold in a rectangular block, and traditionally popular with UK walkers and climbers as a means of providing energy:
We all had our own energy snacks - everything from dextrose to Kendal mint cake - and these little luxuries counted for a great deal when we were exhausted at the start of a hill.
Kendal Mint Cake's finest moment came when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set off to climb Everest in 1953, with four tea chests packed full of the stuff.
She packed him his anorak and gloves, some sandwiches, a flask of coffee and, de rigueur for mountain men, Kendal mint cake.
