Body, Mountains, Photo Essay

Cutting Room Floor: Mount Snowdon

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Bews-y-Coed, Wales. A beautiful town in the Snowdonia foothills. It's a charming place to base out of if Snowdonia isn't your only destination in northern Wales. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Our final stop for last-minute provisions before entering Snowdownia National Park. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Photo by Andrew Zapf
Helfa Fawr, a hikers lodge with simple, functional, and rustic accomodations for our trip. Photo by Andrew Zapf
About halfway along the Llanberis Path is a post filled with coins. Tokens of luck left by previous hikers - a simple superstition. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Coins left by passing hikers on the Llanberis Path. It's a small price to pay for good fortune. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Llanberis Path. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Hikers gazing into a valley obscured by heavy fog. From this point on the trail the route would be wrapped in freezing temperatures and low visability. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Hikers appeared like phantoms out of the ice and fog of Mount Snowdon. Photo by Andrew Zapf
The final ascent to the summit was made even trickier by the slickness of well-worn stones used to pave the route. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Only meters below the summit, Mount Snowdon's peak is nearly invisible. Photo by Andrew Zapf
As hikers slipped and struggled their way the final meters of their ascent of Llanberis Path, many chose to descend by the unconventional route - walking along the Snowdon Mountain Railway lines. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Descending along the Snowdon Mountain Railway. The train doesn't run in the winter, so we enjoyed a significantly less icy path. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Departing the Llanberis Path and heading toward Clogwyn Coch. The ground was only briefly clear before fallen boulders littered the route and the hill slopped downward again. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Andrew Zapf at the base of Clogwyn Coch. This little corner of the mountains was sheltered from the wind. We took a short break hear to nourish ourselves, warm up, and shed our packs. Photo by Yahya Abdul-Qaadir.
The cliffs of Clogwyn Coch. Edmund Hillary and his team practices their climbing ascents on these cliffs. The slippery conditions and powerful gusts must have been excellent preparation for their summit of Mount Everest. Photo by Andrew Zapf
Rain falling in Snowdonia National Park. It threatened to trap us in our lodge with impassable roads and swollen streams. Photo by Andrew Zapf

Andrew Zapf is a co-founder of Pushing Horizons.

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