You won’t find any bougie cafés, cosy pubs, or charming bookshops at this ghost village deep in the slate mountains.

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales is located in the United Kingdom, in the mountains of Snowdon massif. Six areas together represent an exceptional example of an industrial landscape which was ...

Vivian Quarry is perhaps the most popular slate crag in Wales due to its proximity to Llanberis and the vast selection of routes of all shapes and sizes. For many climbers Vivian Quarry acts as the ...

Rainbow Slab is arguably the jewel in the crown of Llanberis slate. The immense, smooth face is broken by a series of smaller ripples and of course by the rainbow itself, a pulsing vein which arches ...

Both Anna Hazlett and Tom Randall have repeated The Quarryman, the Johnny Dawes classic located in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales. After their heyday in the late 1980's the ...

I scramble up a steep, slate-covered slope, traversing wet rock and regretting most of my life decisions. A shadowy tunnel looms ahead, straight out of a horror film I have no interest in starring in.

Tucked away beneath a slate-covered hillside lies "a working world frozen in time", a sight seldom seen by many. At the height of its boom in the late 19th century, the Welsh slate industry provided ...

Big news comes from the fresh Dinorwig slate quarries in Wales where British climber James McHaffie has freed an old project which over the years had come to be known as The Meltdown project. The ...

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