Snowdonia National Park Chairman, Caerwyn Roberts, at the 'demolition ceremony' on Snowdon's summit.

Ministers Sue Essex and Carwyn Jones delivering a hammer blow to the current Snowdon summit building.

The cafe counter in the Snowdon summit building that used to serve thousands of visitors during the summer.

Welsh Assembly Minister, Sue Essex, speaking at the reception in the Electric Mountain Centre after the summit ceremony.

Debris will be taken down the mountain in small skips.

The western end of the 1936 building with the summit above.

The site will eventually be fenced off.

Early start mountain bikers on the summit before 8.30 a.m. There is a voluntary ban on biking on the bridleways between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. until September 30th.

Snowdon summit cloaked in cloud on Friday morning.

The time consuming job of removing all the insulation in the roof.

Dragging the bags of insulation off the roof to be loaded on to the train.

Just enough room for the portacabin to be squeezed in.