SHOULD you queue when you're at the top of a mountain?
One man skipped the queue at the summit of Yr Wyddfa and was booed by other climbers, sparking a debate about whether you should have to line up at its summit.
TikTok climber TheyCallMeSuperman trekked to the summit of Gwynedd's highest peak but was booed when he didn't respect the unwritten rules of waiting for your turn to touch the summit marker.
The climber, who has previously scaled Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa, posted a video showing other climbers booing him for having ignored the queue.
@theycallmesuperman91 Literally whilst wearing a t-shirt that reads; “I am hiking to raise money for a funeral!” #mountsnowdon #snowdonia #hiking ♬ original sound - TheyCallMeSuperman
You can see the TikTok here
TheyCallMeSuperman said the climb was to raise money for a friend's funeral, and even wore a T-shirt which read "I am hiking to raise money for a funeral!”, but this did not stop the backlash from some who felt he should have been a little more patient.
He said: "Instead of being cheered, I was booed for not queueing up."
The social media post went viral, and sparked a debate in the comments with several people questioning why people would queue on a mountain.
One person commented: "It literally says on the website not to queue on top of Snowdon."
Another said the climber's "good cause doesn’t entitle him to be rude", adding: "I don’t think the booing is particularly necessary but I don’t think cutting a queue is either."
One fellow climber supported TheyCallMeSuperman, saying queueing to reach the summit of a mountain "is simply doing too much".
A critic of the boos said they couldn't "imagine queueing in nature", while another called the response "absolute insanity".
Someone felt that the climber skipping the queue was "only an issue because people want to spend half a year posing taking photos".
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