Crib Goch: A Realistic View

Crib Goch, the knife-edge ridge adjacent to Snowdon (highest mountain in Wales) is a famous Grade 1 scramble, and on 'the list' for many hikers and hillwalkers.
The narrow section leading directly from the summit of Crib Goch itself is the bit that you often see on Youtube, witht he fisheye GoPro lens making it look narrower and steeper than it actually is. Those videos also miss out the more dangerous sections that come later, around Crib y Ddysgl and Garnedd Ugain. I shot this video to show what it's actually like in good conditions, and to show some of the highlights of this potentially dangerous route.

Although it is still the route we get asked about most often, Crib Goch is a place where people do fall and become seriously injured, or worse. Not an hour before filming this Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team and HM Coastguard were involved in the rescue of a scrambler with a broken leg. Whilst moving along the ridge I was only a few metres away from someone else who stumbled and fell a short distance due to unsuitable footwear... fortunately he managed to catch himself before serious injury.

This was shot with a Go Pro Session, on my shoulder, on a (very!) busy Easter weekend in April.

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