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The Welsh mountain inn that helped conquer Everest

ByW.B.D. Editorial Desk· October 15, 2026
The Welsh mountain inn that helped conquer Everest

As a new film about Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is released, we visit Pen-Y-Gwryd, the Snowdonia hotel which served as British ‘base camp’ for the 1953 expedition and where the spirit of adventure lives on In the early hours o…

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