Glyder Fawr promoted to Super Mountain
Published on 28 Sep 2010 by Gwion Llwyd
G and J Surveys have been busy again. You might remember that they were checking to see if Tryfan qualified as one of the 14 peaks in Wales over 3000 feet. Well they must have bought a new tape measure as this time they’ve gone metric. Glyder Fawr, previously recorded as being 999m high has been measured at 1000.8m.
The Guardian headline reads “Wales celebrates promotion of peak to ‘super-mountain’” and The Telegraph writes how this will lead to an increase of people climbing the mountain and that “..the famous Welsh 1000m Peaks Race will have to consider becoming a longer race with five peaks instead of four..”. It’s a nice news story, but it would be wrong to think that the mountain has changed, improved even. It’s just our perception that’s altered. I guess that’s what I like about mountains. They’re fixed, permanent, a reassuring constant in an ever-changing world.
The five peaks over 1000m in Snowdonia:
Yr Wyddfa – 1085m
Crib Y Ddisgyl – 1065m
Carnedd Llywelyn – 1064m
Carnedd Dafydd – 1044m
Glyder Fawr – 1000.8m
