“It was a chilly starlit climb up Llanberis pass up to Pen Y Pass, to get set up for Crib Goch to see the sunrise,” he says. “Like most people it was about sticking to relatively familiar and straight forward local territory.”
Even despite his close proximity to the mountains, he knew he’d still be scrambling to make it up to the ridge before the sun. Having miscalculated the effort of climbing the pass though, the sky’s fast changing colour palette only added pressure to the sitution.
“I’m more used to a road bike than these fat tires and a rucksack full of gear. So once off the bike a bit of a power walk ensued to make it to the ridge before sunrise. Fortunately though, I knew a friend was going to be on the ridge that morning and I’d seen his head torch in the distance so I knew I’d have a subject to photograph when I got there,” tells Jethro.
Drenching the landscape in hues of pink and orange when the day’s first rays did appear over the horizon, the landscape stood before him resembled something closer to the formidable summits of the French Alps rather than the more modest snow speckled peaks of North Wales that he’s used to