From Chomolungma to Thule – the world wonders' forgotten alter egos A campaign is underway to call Snowdon by its original Welsh name, ‘Yr Wyddfa’ 29 April 2021 • 1:18pm View of Snowdon, or ‘Yr Wyddfa’, its original Welsh name Credit: iStock/Getty “Get your coats, kids, we’re heading to Yr Wyddfa.” “Er, wheredfa?” To English speakers, ‘Yr Wyddfa’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as ‘Snowdon’, with all its icy, windswept evocations. But a campaign is underway to reclaim the name of Wales’s highest peak, so we ought to get used to it. A representative for the Gwynedd county council has urged Snowdonia National Park Authority to ditch its English name in favour of its Welsh origins. (Not for the first time, as this Telegraph article dated from 2003 attests.)