An experienced climber fell to his death after a falling rock severed his safety rope as he scrambled a ridge in Snowdonia, an inquest heard. Kieran James Strudwick, 26, had been climbing the Dolmen Ridge of the Glyder Fach mountain when the incident occurred.
Kieran, from Uckfield, East Sussex, was on a climbing trip with his friend Tom Haynes, then 25, when a rock fall took place at around midday on Sunday, January 30. The pair had been climbing the ridge, classified as a grade 3 scramble, with all of the appropriate safety equipment, including helmets, ropes, and harnesses.
The relatively experienced climbers had prepared well for the scramble and had taken no risks, the inquest heard at Ruthin County Hall, Denbighshire, on September 21. Despite this, tragedy occurred when a large rock flake from a rock fall above the pair severed Kieran's rope, North Wales Live reports.
