Qualla: Tryfan https://qualla.com/tryfan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tryfan https://qualla.com/tryfan Tryfan: Introduction https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit Originally uploaded by Dooter (Transferred by Hogweard), Public domain. There are two rocks at the top of Tryfan, side by side, each about three metres tall, with a gap of one and a quarter metres between them. The Welsh call them Sion a Sian. The English call them Adam and Eve. To claim the Freedom of Tryfan you have to leap from one to the other. The drop on either side is not survivable. Mountain writer Frank Showell Styles, who knew exactly what he was talking about, called it not too hard a step in calm dry weather, while noting that the penalties of failure are unpleasant in the extreme. Most people who reach the summit choose to look at the rocks and leave them alone.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/gcmn-tryfan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tryfan: The Shape of a Mountain https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit Nick Moyes, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tryfan is not the highest mountain in Wales. It comes in fifteenth at nine hundred and seventeen and a half metres, three thousand and ten feet, having been resurveyed in 2010 and found to be eight feet taller than the maps had said since the mid-1980s. It is, by general agreemen...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/gcmn-tryfan-the-shape-of-a-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Tryfan: The Name and the Legend https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit Terry Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0. Tryfan comes from try, an intensifying particle, and ban, a peak or summit. The very high peak. The name describes itself. Arthurian legend names it as the burial place of Sir Bedivere, the knight who threw Excalibur into the lake, the last of the Round Table to leave the dying k...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/gcmn-tryfan-the-name-and-the-legend.mp3 0:06 3 full Tryfan: The North Ridge https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit Trevor Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The classic route up Tryfan is the north ridge, starting from a layby on the A5 about a mile east of the Idwal Cottage youth hostel. You go straight up. There is no path in the conventional sense, just a Grade 1 scramble that becomes harder if you follow the most direct line and ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/gcmn-tryfan-the-north-ridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Tryfan: Climbing Country https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit David Crocker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Milestone Buttress, the great slab at the mountain's foot, made Tryfan a destination for rock climbers from early in the sport's British history. The Direct Route, seventy-five metres of Very Difficult climbing, was first put up by G. Barlow and H. Priestly-Smith in 1910. It rema...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/tryfan-wp/gcmn-tryfan-climbing-country.mp3 0:06 5 full Tryfan: The Goats https://qualla.com/tryfan/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Look for the goats. Feral goats, descendants of domesticated animals that escaped or were turned out centuries ago, live on Tryfan and across the Glyderau. They have long shaggy coats and curving horns and they perch on ledges that no human could reach. They watch climbers though...

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