Pen-y-Pass

Pen-y-Pass is a mountain go in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a prominent area from which to stroll up Snowdon, as three of the well known courses can be begun here. Glyder Fawr, toward the north, is likewise available from here. Arranged at the high purpose of the Llanberis Pass at a height of 359 meters 1,178 ft, the street was worked during the 1830s to permit metal from the mines on Snowdon to be transported to Llanberis. It would be brought down the Miners Track to a storage facility at Pen-y-Pass first. Already, the diggers had needed to move the mineral over the Snowdon summit and down to Beddgelert, or, in other words around a third the stature of Snowdon.

The Llanberis pass street stretches out past Pen-y-Pass to join the Beddgelert-to-Capel Curig street at the Pen-y-Gwryd lodging. That outstanding climbing inn was utilized as a base by Sir John Hunt, Baron Hunt and his group while preparing for the effective 1953 endeavor to Mount Everest and gear and signatures from that and different campaigns might be found in the Everest Room. The previous Gorphwysfa Hotel at Pen-y-Pass is currently an adolescent lodging worked by YHA, and inverse is a data focus and bistro and a Snowdonia National Park-run auto stop. There is likewise an auto stop at the foot of the Llanberis Pass at Nant Peris and additionally others in Llanberis town.