As a new film about Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is released, we visit Pen-Y-Gwryd, the Snowdonia hotel which served as British ‘base camp’ for the 1953 expedition and where the spirit of adventure lives on In the early hours of 2 June 1953, guests at the Pen-Y-Gwryd hotel in the heart of Eryri (Snowdon...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/oct/15/pen-y-gwryd-hotel-snowdonia-wales-everest-mountaineering)

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