Photo of steam engine descending Mt. Snowden in Wales. Mount Snowdon rises 3,560 feet (1085 meters) above sea level and is the highest point in Great Britain south of the Scottish Highlands. There are various footpaths up to the summit and the Snowdon Mountain Railway ferries passengers the almost five miles from the station in LLanberis up to the café at the peak.
The mountain was used as a training site for Sir Edmund Hillary's 1953 climb of Mt. Everest.