battles here with Merlin the Magician at his side." "Dragons lived in the valleys and the lakes." "And there's even a story about how these mountains were created." "There were two giants." "One was called ldris and he had a throne called Cadair Idris, about 40 miles away, a giant mountain over there, and another was called Rhita, the beard collector." "He liked to collect rival giants' beards and make them into a hat, or later on into a lovely cloak and um...apparently, one day ldris got very, very cross and started kicking rocks in the direction of Rhita and er... and that was the way" "that the extraordinary landscape that is Snowdonia was created." "Apart from all the beards stuff, it's surprising how close this account seemson here and it's a sort of record of all the major events here... at Pen-Y-Gwryd." "And here's a record of the...the night that Everest was conquered, and they've recorded the event here," "and stuck pictures of Hillary and Tenzing." "And here's, look, here's the whole expedition." "John Hunt the leader, Edmund Hillary, climbed, Tenzing." "Tomorrow, I'm intending to find out what it was like to climb then." "To be one of the first people to walk on such a significant part of the planet." "Tryfan is one of the most striking mountains in Snowdonia." "It's 3,002 feet high." "A great crumbling heap of volcanic rock, it's one of ten peaks in a range to the north of Snowdon, which was carved out by glaciers." "This was where