Visitors to Wales' highest mountain are being urged to respect others by not jumping queues to reach the summit.

Recent videos from Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, on social media have shown rows breaking out between those waiting their turn and others skipping the line to reach a metal plate that marks the top.

Marc Screeton, from Manchester, posted a video showing him being heckled as he bypassed the line, saying: "Imagine queuing on a mountain? No chance."

Others believe queuing is necessary for safety reasons.

The recent hot weather has meant another bumper summer for Wales' highest peak in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia - but its growing popularity has led to bottlenecks.

Queues are now common on the stone steps leading to a metal plate or trig point, where people pose for photos and videos.

It has been reported that visitors have waited over an hour to reach the trig point, which is 1,085m (3,560ft) high.

Speaking to the BBC, walkers on the mountain had mixed views about those jumping the queues.

Lucy Taylor said: "I think you should queue because it's really quite dangerous and everyone's trying to get up there - it's just not safe."

Tina Millard from West Bromwich said: "I don't think that you should have to queue.

"It's a mountain, you should just be able to go up and that's it.

"We're not at Alton Towers for a ride. It's a mountain, it's for everyone," she said.

Carl Lynch from Dunstable, Bedfordshire said: "It should be: 'go up there, two minutes and then move on for everyone else'. Simple as that."

Throughout this year's hot weather national park wardens have urged visitors to follow the country code by closing gates, taking their litter away with them and reducing the risks of wildfires.

They have also urged people to wait their turn when queuing.

Alun Jones, an area warden for Eryri National Park Authority, urged those wanting to reach the trig point to be "considerate and don't skip the queue".

Johann Go, a moral philosopher and assistant professor of ethics at University College London, said queuing was not compulsory for most but was often an "unwritten and unspoken" social contract.

"So it's not that I have to queue, but given that others are already restraining themselves, if I were to then jump the queue, I would be saying 'to hell with them' and that my time is more valuable," he said.