Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleFriends on a charity hike were booed and physically restrained by fellow walkers while ascending Snowdon (Jamie Richardson)Eryri National Park Authority has confirmed it has no immediate plans to address the long queues forming at the summit of Yr Wyddfa, maintaining a policy of self-policing despite high visitor volume during peak periods. Around 750,000 people reach the 1,085-metre summit annually out of nearly four million overall visitors to the national park, leading to significant delays as hikers wait to take photographs at the peak. While no new crowd control measures will be implemented this year, park officials stated that the issue of summit congestion will be discussed at a review meeting scheduled for early autumn. The lack of an official queue system has caused tensions, including an incident where two charity walkers completing a 24-hour Three Peaks challenge were booed and physically restrained for bypassing the line to touch the summit. The mountain continues to attract high-profile visitors, including the Princess of Wales, who completed the Three Peaks Challenge in June to raise funds for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in what Kensington Palace believed to be a royal first. In fullQueueing dispute rumbles on top of Snowdon as officials have ‘no plans to intervene’More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Rows break out as hikers jostle to reach the top of Snowdon
Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleFriends on a charity hike were booed and physically restrained by fellow walkers while ascending Snowdon (Jamie Richardson)Eryri National Park Authority has confirmed it has no immediate plans to address the long queues forming at the summit of Yr Wyddfa, maintaining a policy of self-policing despite high visitor volume during peak periods. Around 750,000 people reach the 1,085-metre summit annually out of nearly four million overall visitors to the national park, leading to significant delays as hikers wait to take photographs at the peak. While no new crowd control measures will be implemented this year, park officials stated that the issue of summit congestion will be discussed at a review meeting scheduled for early autumn. The lack of an official queue system has caused tensions, including an incident where two charity walkers completing a 24-hour Three Peaks challenge were booed and physically restrained for bypassing the line to touch the summit. The mountain continues to attract high-profile visitors, including the Princess of Wales, who completed the Three Peaks Challenge in June to raise funds for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in what Kensington Palace believed to be a royal first. In fullQueueing dispute rumbles on top of Snowdon as officials have ‘no plans to intervene’More bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
