A 28-year-old man has died in a climbing accident on Ben Nevis. During the incident, mountain rescue teams had to launch a major operation to extricate 17 people who had become stuck on the peak. The man’s death brings the number of fatalities in the Scottish Highlands to three in a week.
Emergency services were called to the 4,400ft mountain at about 2.15pm on Tuesday after reports of a number of people in difficulty, with members of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team involved in the operation. Two other men, a 29-year-old and a 37-year-old, were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
A Police Scotland spokesman said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, and a report would be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal. His death is the third in the Highlands since Saturday, a spokesman for the mountain rescue team said, with teams called out 12 times since the start of the weekend to rescue 26 people.
