Climbing up Mount Snowdon, 5th August 1997
Standing at 3560 feet, Mount Snowdon or Yr Wyddfa as it is known in Welsh, rates amongst the most beautiful mountains in the world. Whichever direction you approach it from the size and grandeur impresses. Its starfish shape radiates six magnificent ridges each with their own special and individual characters. The deep laciated valleys range from the easily accessible to hanging valleys only reached by complicated scrambling.
Way back in 1997, after completing the four day expedition required to achieve the Gold Award within the President's Award (known as the Duke of Edinburgh Award in the UK), my friends and I decided to climb Mount Snowdon, which is the highest peak in Wales.
Getting to the summit could have been an easy task by taking the Snowdon Mountain Railway but hey, we were still enthusiastic after our expedition, so going up to the highest peak in Wales was not going to be achieved by sitting on a train!
Climbing up via the Pyg Track,a popular path along the lower slopes of Crib Goch we zig zagged up to the smaller lake Glaslyn proceeding to the col between Snowdon and Garnedd Ugain and thence to the summit of Snowdon. Unfortunately the weather was not in our favour and the view from the summit was non-existent due to the fog.
Mount Snowdown's summit was the first summit I ever attempted - although not a very high mountain, its not easy and reaching the summit requires stamina and a level of fitness just the same.
The sense of achievement that I felt on the summit was enough to instill a desire in me to conquer more mountains!
2 comments:
AS you said yourself...
The first peak... but definetly not the last...
Every summit brings you closer to the next one...
Now something on the welsh... Maria is cringing at this momenet...
Well Wales is a lovely place.. been there a couple of times myself.. the only place in the world where a village can have a name with 11 words... and not a single vowel....
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