Olympic torch's journey up Snowdon

29 May 2012 Last updated at 06:15 ET Help

The Olympic torch has been carried to the top of Mount Snowdon, the highest point in England and Wales, by mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington.

The flame travelled in a miner's lamp on the Snowdon Mountain Railway before the 77-year-old climber carried the torch to the summit.

Sir Chris said it "meant an awful lot" to carry the torch up the mountain where he his climbing career began.

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