Snowdon Summit - News Article - Snowdonia, Wales.
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Snowdon (Welsh: Yr Wyddfa) the highest mountain in Wales. Featured on the TV news recently when the Snowdon Mountain Railway helped rescue a teenage girl from the summit. Located in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, North Wales.
Waymark Code: WMPAR7
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/30/2015
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Snowdon mountain summit & its visitor center, must be the most visited mountain top in the Britain, with thousands of visitors daily in the Summer.
Recent surveys give the height of the summit as 1,085 m (3,560 ft), making Snowdon the highest mountain in Wales, and the highest point in the British Isles outside of Scotland.
"Snowdon Mountain Railway put on a special train to get rescue teams to the summit
An asthmatic teenager who collapsed on the summit of Snowdon was rescued with the help of the mountain railway.
A coastguard rescue helicopter was unable to reach the girl, 17, who had been sheltering from 70mph gusts of wind with a group of youngsters on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition.
A special train was put on to take mountain rescue teams to the mist-covered peak.
The girl was carried to the train and brought down to a waiting ambulance.
She was then taken to hospital at Bangor." Text Source: (
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"Snowdon offers some of the best views in Britain. The summit can be reached by a number of well-known paths, and by the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack and pinion railway opened in 1896 which carries passengers the 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from Llanberis to the summit station. The summit also houses a cafe called Hafod Eryri, open only when the railway is operating and built in 2006 to replace one built in the 1930s. The railway generally operates to the summit station from Whitsun to October." Text source: (
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