Yr Wyddfa rows between people queuing and those skipping the line

In May a pair of charity hikers were met with jeers from a queue at the summit as they tapped the trig point to complete a charity challenge.

Jamie Richardson, 32, and Richard Thiedeman, 34, from Lincolnshire, were climbing Yr Wyddfa as part of the Three Peaks challenge to raise money for their friend who has motor neurone disease (MND).

“I was getting booed and then there was a gentleman who was at the top, who had just had his photo taken and he physically tried to stop me,” Richardson said.

He said he had just touched the summit point and heard someone say “you should be ashamed of yourself”.

Richardson added: “There’s no policing of it at all, it is purely free will, if you want to queue you can.

“The queuing, that is just purely down to British culture traditions.”

On social media, some described the scenes at the mountain over the May bank holiday weekend as having a carnival atmosphere due to the crowds there.