Climber, 23, dies in Snowdonia fall after rock comes away in his hand

Mountain rescuers say man who was climbing with two friends was ‘very, very unfortunate’

A 23-year-old climber who died after falling 180 metres from a mountain ridge in Wales as he climbed with two friends was “extremely unfortunate”, mountain rescuers have said.

The man, from Yorkshire, was ascending Y Gribin in Snowdonia or Eryri national park in north Wales at 5pm on Saturday when a handhold he was using to pull himself up broke, causing him to fall down the mountainside.