Send Me To Sleep | Mountains (Voice Only)
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The very first mountain I ever scaled was Snowdon in North Wales, or more accurately called Ierwyddfa, I think, in Welsh.
What personal memories does Andrew share about his first trip up Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa)?
I'm probably not pronouncing that correctly as I'm not a native Welsh speaker, but it's at least closer to the real name than Snowdon is. I actually don't know why the mountain is called Snowdon in the English language. I presume it has something to do with somebody who may have scaled it themselves, you know, a la Everest, for example. But Snowdon was the first mountain that I scaled. I suppose the first time I did it was when I was very young. perhaps one years old, and to describe the ascent as having scaled a mountain would probably be quite a generous description because I was in fact ferried to the top by the rail service that runs there. it is a very easy way to get basically all the way to the top without actually having to do the walk yourself and of course as a one year old that would have been quite a difficult task and I suppose an even more so difficult task for my parents at the time to try and ferry me up there on foot and so
Up we went, and I remember very little of that experience myself, but as my dad tells it, we get to the top, and he's just absolutely amazing. covered in fog. And whilst they were expecting that there might be a glorious panoramic view of the landscape around them, what they actually found was Thick, cloudy fog. I say fog, almost certainly clouds themselves because the altitude was definitely high enough to be right in amongst the clouds. And so a little bit disappointing, I think. And apparently a little bit scary as well for my parents, who were also trying to usher up the mountain. My slightly older brother, who was a toddler at the time and able to walk around And with these sheer cliff drops knocking around in amongst the dense cloud, they didn't stay up there for too long before coming back down on the next train.
But I suppose the first time I actually climbed the mountain would have been, I think, almost eight years ago now. With a friend of mine that I've known for just a little bit longer than that. And it was a really beautiful walk. There are many different paths you can take to ascend Snowdon. And they all vary in level of difficulty. And that time we took the easiest route. And it is a beautiful walk. And to say it's easy is probably not doing it very much justice. It is the easiest path to get to the top in terms of its sort of flatness and scalability, you know, the path. more readily resembles stairs or steps than perhaps other paths but it was not an easy journey to say the least it's it was i think still about three or four hours to the top
and to be fair that was us taking our time and being leisurely as I do remember it was a very warm day that day and the sun was beating down and we were sweating all the way up to the top but it was a beautiful climb and once we eventually reached the top We were met, this time, with exactly that glorious panoramic view I think my parents were after when they originally tried to climb. It was beautiful and surreal. I think it was the highest point I'd ever been before at that time. And to be able to stand at the top of a peak and slowly spin around in a circle and observe far-reaching landscape with a deep and distant horizon on every side is a really magical feeling. And I even did take a video that I still have of that panoramic view and my friend also there at the top.
And I'm glad I took that video, you know. Sometimes they say that it is better to not drag your phone out at times like this to sit and be present and really observe your surroundings.
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