AIBU to think booing the exhausted charity climbers was unfair?

I mean sure, it’s self aggrandising twaddle , because no one actually owes them a cheer or a well done or anything at all.

But why should they have queued?

But the people in the queue are probably thinking that they can rest, "have a snack, some water, enjoy the views" just as easily standing in the queue as standing elsewhere at the top, with the bonus of getting an amazing picture as well. Would I queue for an hour, hell no, but if it was five/ten minutes or so I might.

There's no logic in the argument that wanting to take a picture at a certain place on a mountain is "moronic" (that's really not a word most people use in 2026, like "retarded" it's been seen as inappropriate for at least a decade) but "needing" to touch a specific magic special place on the mountain or otherwise your climb doesn't count, is a completely logical and rationale thing to do.

The man quoted is saying that the climbers had free will to decide to queue rather than just touch it and leave as he did. Equally he had free will to get to the top and think 'I cba to queue, we've got to the top, let's just go back down.'

He's entitled to think they're stupid, they're entitled to think he's rude.

I work in community fundraising for a charity which supports people with a disease for which there is no cure or even much treatment at the moment.

I can tell you categorically that the vast majority of people who fundraise for our charity are either terminally ill, have a terminally ill relative or friend or have lost someone close to them.

Many people fundraise for our charity as a way of coping with their own imminent mortality, dealing with grief and anticipatory grief, celebrating someone they have lost, and trying to find just a small piece of hope. For people who are diagnosed it's already too late so they do it in the hope that other families might not go through what they are going through.

So I don't recognise the trope that it's just 'all about them and their ego'. No doubt there are some but please don't apply that to everyone who fundraises. It's really unfair.

Anybody who has done / is doing the three peaks should be allowed to queue jump to touch the summit ahead of people who have only done the one mountain, and in the case of Snowden, may have taken the train up.

It is utterly gruelling - not just the three mountains but the travel in between to do the challenge in 24 hours.

I did Ben Nevis last year in 25 degree heat - nearly killed me and I couldn't wait to touch the trig point at the top before collapsing for a bit before making our way back down. No way could I have also done Scarfeld and Snowdon immediately after.

There is no way I would have begrudged anyone who was on a three peaks challenge going ahead of me.

As for people who say that doing fun things for charity is ridiculous - this isn't like those stupid charity experiences that people do to get a cheap 'trip of a lifetime', three peaks is bloody gruelling, even more so than marathons. People might also see it as a personal challenge, but it is by no means easy!

The queue is for people to take a selfie/posed pic at the trig point. If people are doing 3 peaks challenge it's a crazy amount of time to waste if they just wish to touch the point and move on.

I believe in queueing 100% in the right place, and yeah if you want a picture at the trig then join the queue as people are such posers these days and take aaages taking pics in nature like this, but if you're just tapping it and moving on then that queue is pointless.

Unless they took the train up.

They may be proper climbers, but they’re also selfish.

Suggested new BBC article headline: Snowden Snowflakes Triggered by Trig Tappers

It's not a finite resource. They didn't cause anyone in the queue to wait any longer than they otherwise would have done. They went straight up the other side, tapped it, came down again.

The people are all queuing for selfies!! That's not what a mountain is for! The two lads are proper climbers.

When I rule the world selfies will be banned.

Yep. I felt quite seized up for the descent down Llanberis Path after hanging around the summit for over an hour. This was despite having bounced up Miners Path pretty quickly and feeling pretty good.

Something like 90% of accidents on Snowdon are on the descent red zone where there is loose scree on Llanberis Path. The warning signs say this is due to descending on 'tired' legs, but stiffer, cooled down legs after spending too long at the summit could also be a contributing factor that hasn't been considered much on this thread.

That’s exactly what I thought! And no one forced him to do the climb either. He really didn’t give a good impression in the article.

From the article:
"When I'm wearing a T-shirt that you can see what this person's hiking for... surely anybody at the summit of a mountain deserves a cheer and a well done?
"I was coming up feeling proud and then I'm being booed, so now I'm really angry and I'm not focused on being proud.

All I read was “Me me me me me”

They should have waited like everyone else.

i would not be walking up a moutain and then waiting for an hour in a Queue to get a photo, how utterly ridiculous. This is to British.

I wouldn’t queue if I just wanted to touch the TRIG point either, that’s so daft.

Are you the family or friends of one of the climbers or something? Also, it’s so easy to put a link here. Just add a link to your post as you would to a WhatsApp message, text or email.

Which is the opposite of what your first post said?

I’m sorry but I’m not queuing.

The queue is for people wanting to get photos for insta. If you’re timing yourself or just want to get on with it then of course you can just walk past and touch the trig. People are insane!

Exactly this.

Exactly!

The people queuing are blocking the stepped access to the summit by making it into a queue for individual stylised photos. Sure they may have all manner of reasons for doing so, but they're in the way. People walking around this blockage that they've created are not the problem.

They should have just walked up to the trig point then shouldn’t they 🤷🏻‍♀️

The video totally exonerates them in my view, any of the people queueing could have done the same thing. There’s loads of space to climb up the ascent on Snowden - as you can literally see in the video.

I can't really get worked up about what they did either way, but queuing to touch a summit would drive me insane. I'd just take a photo next to the queue and piss off.

I'm sorry, but in my experience way too many of these 'charity challenges' are personal jollies funded by other people.

Everyone else in the line was there for personal reasons, too. Just because they weren't 'publicly' declaring them for all to see doesn't make them just as important ... and they may have been dealing with their own stuff and their own exhaustion.

YABU