0:24:06 > 0:24:08Cadair Idris, the mountain range,
0:24:08 > 0:24:11is definitely...the best in Wales.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Everybody said it was Snowdon, but everybody goes up Snowdon.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17It's like... It's like the M1!
0:24:17 > 0:24:20People don't know about Cadair Idris, so it's much quieter.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23It's more private and full of stories and legends.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Tell us about the name of the mountain.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30- Right, cadair... - Cadair.- ..is Welsh for a chair.
0:24:30 > 0:24:34- I think you have a similar word? - Cathaoir, in Irish, yes.- Cathaoir.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Well, we're cadair and Idris is the name of a man.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40So, it's Cadair Idris. Do you want to give that a go?
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Cadair Idris.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Da iawn!
0:24:45 > 0:24:48And, apparently - there are lots of different stories,
0:24:48 > 0:24:51but this is the one we go with - Idris was a giant.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54And he would sit on those mountains over there and, eventually,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57over time, his backside, sort of, gouged a, kind of,
0:24:57 > 0:25:01backside-shaped hole in the mountain range.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04So, that is why it's Cadair Idris.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07If you sleep on the summit - and I have done a couple of times now...
0:25:08 > 0:25:09I tried my best!
0:25:09 > 0:25:13The following morning, you will wake up either a poet -
0:25:13 > 0:25:15that's why most people do it -
0:25:15 > 0:25:17or completely off your head
0:25:17 > 0:25:21or you don't wake up, at all, as in, you're dead, basically.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26You have also found inspiration for your own writing in this area?
0:25:26 > 0:25:29I have. I mean, look around you here.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33I mean...it's probably one of the most romantic places in Wales,
0:25:33 > 0:25:34in my opinion.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39I write novels and things now and I have written about this place
0:25:39 > 0:25:43so many times. It is just... It gets into your blood, somehow.
0:25:43 > 0:25:44It just doesn't let you go.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51I'm afraid we're not going to be reaching the summit today, Bethan.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52No.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Erm...would have.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59I used to be a very active person. That's probably why I had to have
0:25:59 > 0:26:03a new hip. But I tell you, when I am back up on that summit,
0:26:03 > 0:26:06I will be crying. There will be tears in my eyes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10- Overwhelmed with emotion?- Yep. Emotion, not pain, I hope, yeah.
0:26:10 > 0:26:14Yeah. No, it's definitely one of my ambitions now,
0:26:14 > 0:26:15to get back up there.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17HE SPEAKS IRISH GAELIC
0:26:17 > 0:26:20"Let that not be very long away."
0:26:20 > 0:26:22What was that?
0:26:22 > 0:26:23HE REPEATS THE PHRASE
0:26:23 > 0:26:25SHE REPEATS THE PHRASE
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Yes! "Let that not be very long away."
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Oh, yeah. I like that.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31SHE REPEATS THE PHRASE
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Very good. Excellent.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35SHE REPEATS THE PHRASE