PENY FAN
“On the Beacons the Old Red Sandstone reaches its highest point in Britain outside Scotland, forming, as seen from Brecon, three noble rounded heads above an abrupt scarp face. Few landscapes could more perfectly illustrate the effects of glaciation than this quartet of magnificent northward-facing cirques that look down their smooth U-shaped valleys from rims that are hardly yet eroded by gullying, as if it were only yesterday that the glaciers melted.”
Exploring Wales, WM Condry, 1970
YOU COULD BE FORGIVEN for thinking that there’s only one route up Pen y Fan: that from Storey Arms. It’s surely the easiest
