Watch: Climber booed for skipping queue at the summit of Yr Wyddfa
Nation.Cymru staff
A charity climber said he was shocked when he ascended Yr Wyddfa only to be met with boos from fellow trekkers queuing to get to the summit of Wales’ tallest mountain.
The reason for the boos was that he appeared to jump the queue to get to the summit.
Which begs the question – should you be forced to queue when you’re at the top of a mountain?
TikTok climber Jamie Richardson, 32, whose handle is TheyCallMeSuperman reached the top of the peak but was booed when he didn’t wait his turn to touch the summit marker.
The climber, who has previously scaled Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa, posted a video showing other climbers booing him for having ignored the queue.
The content creator, who along with a fellow climber Richard Thiedeman, 34 was scaling the three peaks to raise money for their friend Thomas Hynes who has Motor Neurone Disease.
He even wore a t-shirt explaining he was participating in a charity trek, but that did not stop a negative reaction from some waiting in line who felt he should have shown a little more patience.
He said: “Instead of being cheered, I was booed for not queueing up.”
The social media post went viral attracting more than 600,000 views, and sparked a huge debate in the comments with for and against queuing on a mountain.
@theycallmesuperman91 Literally whilst wearing a t-shirt that reads; “I am hiking to raise money for a funeral!” #mountsnowdon #snowdonia #hiking ♬ original sound – TheyCallMeSuperman
Richardson, speaking to the BBC, said he was taken aback by the reaction, revealing another hiker tried to physically stop him from reaching the trig point.
“I’m up to the third mountain, I’m physically exhausted, it was 20 odd degrees. No shade or anything,” he said.
“I was physically struggling. I wanted to just go up and touch the summit and get myself down.
“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.”
He added he had just touched the summit point and heard someone say “you should be ashamed of yourself”.
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Good for him for raising money but that does not make him entitled. There could have been several people in the queue also raising money but waiting their turn.
In this day and age these pointless charity activities are very fashionable. Rather than joining the moronic masses on Yr Wyddfa why not aim to litter pick 100 tons off beaches or do something else constructive but sponsored for charity.
The fact that he expects to be cheered just because he hiked up the mountain just as everyone else is speaks volumes about the size of his ego
A lot of them come up on the train.
It’s a trig point people. Get over it.
..and how many of those who shuffled their way to the top would stand any kind of scrutiny of the kit they were wearing? High %age of ill equipped folk always turn up among the day trippers.
The flip flop and carrier bag brigade are there daily. Yr Wyddfa should have a permit system introduced like other countries. It at least covers the huge volume of MRT calls that the 3 local teams get.
Some of the danger I’ve seen parents put their children in up there is appalling.
The fact that this guy is concerned about someone booing him, despite nothing else arising from it, tells us as much about modern society as his expectation that he should get cheered does.
Get on with your life and stop worrying either way about what others think.
If you look to attention and recognition, don’t be surprised when you don’t gain the type of attention you were expecting or, should we say, that you felt you were entitled to.
Typical attention-seeking social media ‘personality’… what a shame Nation.Cymru felt it necessary to give him the oxygen of publicity for this total non-story.
They thought he was jumping the queue for the obligatory socials photo.
This is what happens when you put a train and cafe on a mountain
Does neb lleol yn sefyll mewn rhes i gyrraedd y pegwn, mae nhw’n llwyr anwybyddu’r drefn yma sydd wedi ei gyflwyno gan dwristiaid. Mae’r nifer anferthol o dwristiaid wedi difetha pob fwynhad o gerdded fyny’r Wyddfa. Mae’r syniad o ddymchwel y caffi yn un sy’n apelio yn fawr iawn i mi erbyn hyn.
As somebody who has taken more than a few people up to the summit, it is pretty awful there unless you go early and on days that you expect it to be quiet. Even with that, the last time that I went to the summit was with my wife and three kids, and we camped up there for the night to watch an early sunrise long before anybody else arrived. I have to say that I’ve never seen anybody push in front of the queue; I know that it’s a strange British meme, but it just seems very wrong. I… Read more »