With a mountain to climb after Covid, this old-school Snowdonia hotel is still drawing on its Everest links
Something is missing in the Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel â George. Thatâs the name of a shrunken head from Peru, which I remember seeing in the Smoke Room a decade ago. Itâs just as well itâs gone â such a grisly trophy had surely outlived its shock value â but itâs also a surprise. To quote the Talking Heads song, the PyG is a heaven âwhere nothing/ nothing ever happensâ. Yet something has happened and someoneâs head has disappeared. This creeper-smothered hotel fits snug as a plug in the socket of Snowdonia. The head was brought here by George Band...
Source: telegraph.co.uk