Pen-y-ghent — Local services in Great Britain

Recently did this hike with my best friend and 9 y/o daughter. We chose to walk up the red route as we knew it was quicker, the hike is quite steep but there are steps pretty much all the way up which make it a bit easier on the legs.

At the top you do have to scramble - we chose a really windy day so it was a little bit scary, my friend is tall so she helped my daughter up, I think I chose a silly route as I'm only 5ft2 and ended up stuck (I did manage to shimmy along and find an alterative rock to use to get up). I'd suggest if you're short or going with kids to make sure you take a step back and assess the rocks to scramble before you actually do it!

The views up the top are stunning and it only took us 1 hr and 30 to get to the top which was great. We sat behind the wall to have our lunch out of the wind and then desended down the blue route which was a really nice and steady route down. If you don't want to scramble to the top, make sure you take the blue route up because its a lot friendlier even though it is...

Pen-y-Ghent, one of the Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales. To get the full set, you need to conquer Ingleborough and Whernside too. Pen-y-Ghent is 694 metres high and there’s a straightforward circular route starting and ending in the village of Horton in Ribblesdale. Most people go anticlockwise, but it’s not obligatory. The route is about 5 miles, strenuous in places, involves a bit of clambering over and up (or down) rocks and it should take about 3-to-4 hours, depending how fit you are.

Pen usually means ‘hill’ and y is the definite article, but no one is sure what Ghent means – some sources say it means ‘boundary’ or ‘border’ (so – ‘hill on the boundary’) and others say it’s a corruption of the Celtic gwynt – ‘wind’ – so possibly ‘windy summit’. Or it could be a personal name. We’ll probably never know – but the name, in various spellings (including Penegent), has been passed down from the people that migrated to these islands before the Romans came and who spoke a language close to...

It was snowing and the peak was not visible from the car park. As it was the first time it somewhat alluded me as to which way to go as we were told to go via the church! We started and found along the main road a sign lost which we followed and took us to past the primary school. The actual climb on the snow clad hills was straightforward, scenery was breathtaking as a blanket of white snow covered all the fields. Closer to the top when steps protruded from amongst the snow it became very slippy as ice had formed. When we got to the shoulder of the peak it was very difficult with snow hitting us and visibility reduced. Once at the top clouds and snow hamperes our visibility and then we had to scramble back down which was very tricky but worthwhile. Would love ti try...