North Wales’s national park boasts mountain and sea views: several of its craggy peaks gaze across to Ireland and it has miles of sandy beaches. You can climb Wales’s highest mountain – 1,085-metre Mount Snowdon – without working up a sweat by catching the vintage train that potters to its summit. Adrenaline-seekers can zoom down zip lines, bounce down mountain bike trails or catch breaks at an inland surfing lagoon – this is the UK’s adventure capital.

Perhaps it's only fitting that the highest mountain in Wales boasts the country's greatest all-day scrambl-y ridge traverse.