Here is a picture I took a couple of months after the Tour de France finished at Luz Ardiden in 1994. It's basically a car-park, with that ghastly looking shed which I believe is still there - we'll find out on Thursday
So I suppose we should be grateful that all Snowdon's got on top is a cafe and a little railway station.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen. Jorge Luis Borges