AIBU to think booing the exhausted charity climbers was unfair?

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2 charity climbers booed ,because they went before the queue to touch the top!Had already done the 3 peaks challenge and were exhausted .A man physically tried to stop them by putting his hand out! YABU they should have waited .YANBU they should not have been booed

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.

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.

When I rule the world selfies will be banned.

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.

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

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

Unless they took the train up.

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.

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!

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.

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 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?

to be honest they probably would have saved a lot of aggro if they'd just shouted as they arrived explaining that they just needed to touch the top and go because they were doing a timed climb for charity.

I imagine people were booing because they probably thought they were going to do the same thing they were queuing to do - stand there for a minute or two and take a picture, in which case regardless of whether you think there 'should' be a queue to access something, once there is you have to wait in it or risk being thought a dick. If they'd just taken 10 seconds to tell people what they were doing I doubt people would have reacted the same way.

Actually it's the queuers who were selfish. They had created a blockage on the most accessible route to the summit in order to take photos. These lads got to the summit by sensibly avoiding the blockage and going a different route.

I think the climbers were selfish because, in the article, all they focus on is how tired they were. They don’t give a single thought to the other climbers.

I also don’t get why a BBC article is needed on this. I can’t see how it’s news.

Pleaae do not recommend a recreational hiker to take the Crib Goch route.

Should have worn better sunblock if they were sunburned.

Entitled knobs wanting a round of applause for their hobby.

To PP, I wouldn't bother with Snowdon. On nice days it is hellish at the top.
Personally I would demolish the train track.

They don’t give a single thought to the other climbers.

Why do they need to? What they did doesn't affect anyone on there. No one has to queue. Anyone else there could have done the same.

Pete’s Eats is open again, gone a bit upmarket from the old days.

Its a mountain; they didnt want a photo opportunity!

@outdooryone Also, to add, Yr Wyddfa is by no means easy (which people might think you meant when you said there’s a ‘very easy, wide path to follow).

It is not easy. You make it sound like a jaunt to the local supermarket. You need proper shoes, clothes and equipment and to have done the appropriate prep before climbing it. I had a very outdoorsy friend who thought, like you, it was easy. It was easy for her. Not for me. It was hell - even with the appropriate clothes and shoes etc.

Exactly!

Because the other climbers would’ve been experiencing exactly the same weather conditions as them. Yet they just focused on themselves and how they weren’t congratulated by anyone for getting to the top. Why should they be congratulated, over and above anyone else?

I also don’t get why a BBC article is needed on this. I can’t see how it’s news.

It's topical because this type of thing is happening all over the place. Do we want our public spaces to have areas cut out of them for Instagram selfie queues? It's an example of internet content creation impinging on real world behaviour and access.