The Great Outdoors

The Wild West

ERHAPS UNSURPRISINGLY for someone who didn’t grow up ‘outdoorsy’, my first proper mountain summit was the well-publicised Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon. One early summer’s day over a decade ago, I huffed and puffed my way up the Llanberis Path – an unfit and under-experienced novice too wracked with self-doubt to try an ascent via a more was too appealing to refuse.

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