Google Conquers Snowdon

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In a move which will be held as either more amusing ways to fritter away your lunchtime, or FURTHER ENCROACHMENT of a MULTINATIONAL and THE END OF THE WORLD, Google has ‘conquered’ Snowdon.

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As close to the top as you get

By sending some poor sap to walk up the mountain with the mother and father of bulky rucksacks on his back (unless his shadow merely indicates that he’s very pleased to see you), Google Earth has a full 360degree view of many of Snowdon’s paths, all the way up to (almost) the top – apart, perplexingly, for the last 20 metres or so. Perhaps it’s to encourage everyone to actually get up there for real to see what the fuss is about. I mean, you can get a TRAIN, people!

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A very excited walker

Astonishingly, the anonymous hiker managed to find the one day in the past 150 years where it wasn’t raining up there – and then he cruelly denies the sofa-bound masses the vicarious joy of the summit view. Harsh.

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They’ve even got the (rather fun, what) Ranger’s path…

You can enjoy it in all its splendour here

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Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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