A man has died after falling 400ft while walking in Snowdonia. The 60-year-old man was walking in the Crib Goch area of the mountain range when he fell just after 11am yesterday.
The man, believed to be from the North West of England, was walking with his son-in-law when he fell about 400 ft.
The mountain rescue team from Llanberis and the RAF rescue helicopter were called to the national park and were on the scene within 15 minutes, but it took the rescue teams more than three hours to recover the man’s body.
A spokesman for the mountain rescue team said a member of the public also walking in the Crib Coch made his way to try to help the man who had fallen. “The walkers were well-equipped and the weather was fine and dry,” said the spokesman.
“It seems to have been just a tragic accident.”
The man had fallen on the steepest side of the ridge, which is an almost vertical drop to the scree of Cwm Glas.
Rescue teams had to be winched down from a helicopter to recover the man’s body because of the steep terrain mountain.
A North Wales Police spokeswoman said the man, who has not been named, was airlifted by the RAF to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital, in Bangor, where he was pronounced dead.
The man’s distraught son-in-law was also airlifted off the mountain and taken to the mountain rescue air base before being transferred to hospital.
He was not injured in the incident but was suffering from shock.
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