The cairn (approx centre left) appears very much subservient to its surrounding landscape when viewed from the shattered limestone pavement near the summit trig pillar. The skyline ridge cradles the Llyn Fawr, beyond which are the Rhondda valleys and the heartbreakingly scarred heartland of industrial South Wales. Cadair Fawr is thus so close .... yet feels on a different planet.
Image credit: Robert Gladstone
