Ruthin was the target for their lunch, after all that mountaineering, specifically Mrs Parkinson’s in Clwyd Street, where, as Charlie puts it ‘The old gent’ recalled how Charlie and friends had taken this exact same route 12 months earlier, and the ‘gent’ actually remembered that it was Charlie’s birthday on that occasion, 20 July 1924 !

All this on the back of a day that started with a 3am breakfast by candlelight