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    SKY WALKING: Britain and Ireland’s best ridge walks

    Sep 10, 2021 4 minutes

    Panoramic views, heart-in-mouth exposure and often a spot of scrambling thrown in for good measure – it’s not hard to see why we’re so drawn to ridge walks, which allow us to get up high in the hills and stay there all day.

    The UK and Ireland’s superlative selection of ridge walks encompasses everything from multi-day Munro-bagging expeditions to scrambly horseshoes and relaxing whaleback traverses. Here are some of the best.

    SNOWDON HORSESHOE, SNOWDONIA

    Crib Goch gets all the plaudits– but linking it up with stickle-backed Y Lliwedd in the sweeping circuit known as the Snowdon Horseshoe extends this spicy-yet-succinct ridge into something much more sustained. Starting from Pen-y-Pass, the route kicks off

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