Content creator who left bathtub on Pen y Fan apologises

“It was a complete honest mistake,” Christopher said.

“I obviously didn’t mistakenly leave it up there, I didn’t forget – it was a mistake in the fact I thought I was doing the right thing with people telling me it was ‘awesome’ and ‘cool’.

“I should never have left anything up the mountain. I’m glad the message of this story is that, even though I’m the villain, everyone’s sticking up for the national park.

“It’s a dirty mistake, I shouldn’t be leaving anything up the mountain.

“It’s my fault for thinking it was a good idea but when clearly I should have been thinking more about keeping our nature clean,” he said.

After being urged by people to leave it there, he said he was going to go back two days later and send it back down on wheels.

He added he had received many messages criticising his actions for leaving it there.

Christopher said the national park has told him the incident had been reported as fly-tipping, and he is unclear if he will be fined.

“I haven’t got the money. I’m in my overdraft, I haven’t got the money to do anything.

“If it comes, I’ll be gutted. I hope there’s an option to do some voluntary work to try and pay the fine.”

Bannau Brycheiniog National Park has been approached for comment.

Cardiff Rugby academy players stumbled on Christopher’s bathtub while carrying out essential maintenance work on the mountain, and helped rangers retrieve it.

Writing on Facebook, the academy described it as an “additional and unexpected team building exercise”.