A medic for Man City FC plunged 300ft to his death when he and his wife set out to revisit a mountain ridge where he proposed 27 years before.
Dr Jamie Butler, who became senior medical officer with the team in 2009, popped the question to his wife Margaret on Striding Edge in the Lake District in 1994.
They wanted to repeat the romantic event and visited the Lake District National Park to revisit the fond memory.
The couple, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester, had returned to the destination last November to follow the same path.
But an inquest heard that doctor fell from the mountain in poor visibility, after a mist came down.
The mountain was said was to have held a special place in the couple's hearts, the hearing in Cockermouth was told.
The inquest heard the couple had taken on the walk in the afternoon and wanted to visit the exact location where the marriage proposal took place.
But Mrs Butler said when they reached Striding Edge she was too tired to continue.
Dr Butler, however, continued and walked along it on his own to find the exact spot where he asked her to marry him.
In a statement, Mrs Butler described seeing her husband walk off into mist.
After seeing no sign of him, she then shouted after him but got no response and called the police.
It was then discovered that Dr Butler had fallen from the peak and suffered significant injuries, including a fractured skull.
His body was later found by rescue crews below the ridge, before he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Coroner Kirsty Gomersal concluded the death was an accident as Mrs Butler paid tribute to her husband who she said she and her family loved.
Mrs Butler said: “Jamie was a loving husband with two twin boys who he adored.
"He will be forever missed. He died doing what he loved.”
Dr Butler studied medicine at Liverpool University and during his post-graduate training, he trained in all surgical specialities.
He became a neurosurgical registrar in Oxford before training as a GP with wide interests including sports medicine.
In 2007, Dr Butler became a medic for Manchester City Football Club.
In 2011, he was cleared of wrongdoing after Kolo Toure was given a six months ban after testing positive for drugs.
The defender took his wife's diet pills and when he was found out, then claimed he showed Dr Butler, who gave him the thumbs to take them.
A Football Association report ruled against Toure and stated: "[Dr Butler] never told him it was safe to use water tablets [and] he would unequivocally have said they were prohibited and should not be used."
Doug Jones, the head physiotherapist at Altius Healthcare, in Hale, worked with Dr Butler at Premiership rugby union side Sale Sharks when he was part of the physio team.
Speaking to MailOnline, Mr Jones said: "He was a really fantastic guy who didn’t have a bad word to say about anyone. He was very loved by the staff and players at both Sale & Man City…. you just couldn’t not warm to him."
Dr Butler was also described as a "wonderful guy who will be very missed by his friends and family".
