Snowdon no longer called Snowdon?

Snowdon has always been the massif (as in Crib Goch is on Snowdon) and Yr Wyddfa is the peak, was in my day anyway. To be fair every other single peak in the area is known by it's Welsh name, Tryfan hasn't been renamed 'Wedgie' for example.

By the way BBC, it doesn't mean 'grave' it means 'tumulus', source Showell Styles, who knew his stuff.
 
Never mind Snowdon, its about time 'Everest' was pronounced correctly.

The surveyor after whom the mountain was called pronounced his name 'Eve - rest', not 'Ever - rest'.
 
If this becomes the norm Maxwell will have to be referred to as being born in Llanelwy not St Asaph. 🤔
 
Another silly idea. Do we go back to the name before the Welsh were there?
With only that name it will rapidly get scratched from the 3 peaks challenge!
 
Curryman said:
For those who are not sure how to pronounce the Wesh version, Yr (Ear) Wyddfa (With va) is the correct way. Here to help.
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Bit pedantic, but it’s actually pronounced more like Yr (Uhrr [rolled R ]) Wyddfa (Wuhth-va) where the th sounds like on a ‘the’ rather than th as in ‘thin’👍
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Isn't this a bit like when football stadia are renamed, everyone will just use the name to which they are used.
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Is it not kind of like the opposite to that?

Where a football stadium has a traditional name like Bloomfield Road, then the fans get so used to calling it “The Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Breakfast Bowl”, that they become totally ignorant of the original name, until one day someone suggests... How about we change the name from “The Crunchy Nut Breakfast Bowl” back to our traditional name of “Bloomfield Road”

Maybe while we’re at it we could give Mount Everest the name it had before the English discovered it too👍
 
BFC_BFC_BFC said:
Is it not kind of like the opposite to that?

Where a football stadium has a traditional name like Bloomfield Road, then the fans get so used to calling it “The Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Breakfast Bowl”, that they become totally ignorant of the original name, until one day someone suggests... How about we change the name from “The Crunchy Nut Breakfast Bowl” back to our traditional name of “Bloomfield Road”

Maybe while we’re at it we could give Mount Everest the name it had before the English discovered it too👍
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Like Ayre's Rock.
 
Macseasider said:
FCUK THAT FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS!
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It's not quite as bad as it looks on the video, he's gone for a weird bit on the pinnacles, most of the time you can use the edge as a kind of hand rail, but there are a couple of fuck this moments, it's a lot more serious than Striding Edge or Sharp Edge for example.

It's never as quite as it is on that video anyway, usually queuing, kids and dogs etc.. which makes you feel a bit better. You've got to scare yourself sometimes.

This is a better one.

 
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Lytham_fy8 said:
It's not quite as bad as it looks on the video, he's gone for a weird bit on the pinnacles, most of the time you can use the edge as a kind of hand rail, but there are a couple of fuck this moments, it's a lot more serious than Striding Edge or Sharp Edge for example.

It's never as quite as it is on that video anyway, usually queuing, kids and dogs etc.. which makes you feel a bit better. You've got to scare yourself sometimes.

This is a better one.

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I've scared myself many a time. Used to be fairly prolific on the Lakeland fells in my 20's and 30's. Had some hairy moments one being pretty much a race against time down the chimney and striding edge after summiting Helvellyn due to an un-forecasted blizzard which was covering all the tracks as quick as we were scrambling down them.

Come to think of it I fell walked and was terrified of heights the whole time. Had a nightmare getting down Haystacks once in really bad weather with the dog too. Miss the sense of achievement of fell walking. Getting to Lakeland at 6am and leaving for home at lunchtime watching all the grokles queuing up bumper to bumper to go to Ambleside in the other direction.
 
Scared is good on the hills, keeps you alive. Only time I ever got caught out was Cairngorms in winter, unforecasted heavy snow, whiteout, literally couldn't tell whether the slope was up or down. Only time `I have ever had to rely on GPS to get me safely home.

Striding Edge is easy in good weather, and potentially lethal in bad. My missus says her best achievement was doing it in full winter, crampons and ice axe, and surviving. She never fancied Crib Goch.

Cue TangerineNeil telling us how easy they all are compared to AnTeallach and Aonach Eigach 😎
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Scared is good on the hills, keeps you alive. Only time I ever got caught out was Cairngorms in winter, unforecasted heavy snow, whiteout, literally couldn't tell whether the slope was up or down. Only time `I have ever had to rely on GPS to get me safely home.

Striding Edge is easy in good weather, and potentially lethal in bad. My missus says her best achievement was doing it in full winter, crampons and ice axe, and surviving. She never fancied Crib Goch.

Cue TangerineNeil telling us how easy they all are compared to AnTeallach and Aonach Eigach 😎
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Aonach Eagach can politely go f**k itself, you're never getting me on that.

I don't like Crib Goch because of the annoying schlep from the Pyg track up to the ridge, always preffered the Rhydd Ddu path over Bwlch Main.
 
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Macseasider said:
I've scared myself many a time. Used to be fairly prolific on the Lakeland fells in my 20's and 30's. Had some hairy moments one being pretty much a race against time down the chimney and striding edge after summiting Helvellyn due to an un-forecasted blizzard which was covering all the tracks as quick as we were scrambling down them.

Come to think of it I fell walked and was terrified of heights the whole time. Had a nightmare getting down Haystacks once in really bad weather with the dog too. Miss the sense of achievement of fell walking. Getting to Lakeland at 6am and leaving for home at lunchtime watching all the grokles queuing up bumper to bumper to go to Ambleside in the other direction.
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I'm bad with ladders and planes and stuff that moves, but never bothered much on hills.
 
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