A 31-year-old Chinese hiker has died after reportedly unhooking his safety line to take photographs on a snow-covered mountain in Sichuan province moments before plunging hundreds of metres to his death, in an accident captured on video and now circulating online.
The victim, identified by local authorities only as Mr Hong, fell on 25 September while attempting to climb Nama Peak, a 5,588-metre subsidiary summit of Mount Gongga, one of China's most treacherous mountains.
