Ben Nevis

Date: 18/7/22	Age: 12
Height: 1,345	Location: Fort William
Distance: 17km	Time: 6 hours
geology: granite	People: Me, Dad

We started at the assent from the car park at 8am. At this point the hill was still relatively quite by this I mean there were only about 4 big groups of people also starting off on the hill. A massive change from the mountain we did only a couple days before, where we only met 3 people for the entire walk. So as we started along up the hill we quickly over took most people. We met a runner coming down the hill at 8:30 in the morning, I was amazed at how early they would of had to wake up. By the time we got half way up the hill I was amazed 1 by the view and 2 that Dad hadn’t exploded with the price of the car park and the amount of people on the hill. We Jumped over a river coming down the hill and I realised that the path was properly paved with nice sized steps all the way up. As we reached near the top I saw what looked like a steady stream of ants marching up the the path, more people than path. We reached the top at 11:30 and I got a photo on the trig point after elbowing everyone else out of the way. We spent 30mins on the top and I was getting super bored all there was were people, rocks, people and you guessed it more people. Nothing much happened on the descent apart from people halfway up asking if they were near the top and some guys selling coke from the river. One minor detail I forgot to include is it was the hottest day of the year. I think it was around 27 degrees and we were boiling and some people who had just started the walk and had probably been walking for around an hour looked like they were regretting their life choices. We finished the walk around 3 and dipped our feet in the river at the bottom.