The 22-year-old student was climbing with three others in Scottish HighlandsA 22-year-old woman has died after falling about 150 metres (500ft) on Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands on New Year’s Day. The Bristol University student was climbing with three others on a planned expedition along a popular ledge route when she fell. Patrick Boothroyd, 21, a Cardiff University student, died after sustaining a serious head injury when he fell 30 metres (100ft) after a ledge of snow collapsed as he scaled Tower Gully on the 1,345-metre peak on 16 December. John Stevenson, from Lochaber mountain rescue ream, said the conditions on the mountain were very cold. It was a big fall.”The team received an emergency call at around 10.30am on Tuesday, and a coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Inverness airlifted members of the mountain rescue team to recover the woman’s body and extract the other climbers.

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2019 11:57 UTC