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Up the slope a jot more and you would be on the N ridge. Otherwise join the ledge L as it climbs aloft through boulders lavishly dressed in heather and bilberry. Below, the mottled-green loneliness of Cwm Tryfan; above, buttresses and gullies speckled with climbers’ reds and blues and an occasional glimpse of the wild goats that frequent these lofty heights.

Before long the angle abates and the terrace divides into two paths. Both trend W to a wall with two stiles that crosses the col separating the S and far S peaks. The lower path toils unadventurously up scree, while the higher gives a short but airy romp over the terminal boulders of the S ridge.

Heather Terrace is over; now for the S ridge. Scramblers looking for a challenge can take it head on, climbing virtually due N over huge blue-grey slabs of scabrous rock. Most folk will cross the wall and continue round the bend for 50, maybe 100yd, until a line of cairns reveals a more conventional scramble to the miniscule col separating the main and S tops.