'Madness' On Snowdon
Dead walker wasn't equipped for winter conditions says coroner.
Posted: 31 July 2009
by Jon
It was 'madness' to go up Snowdon in winter conditions without ice axe
and crampons said the coroner in an inquest into two deaths on Snowdon
this February, 2009.
The BBC reports that one walker was 'well equipped' but may have
slipped while reading a map, while the other didn't have the right
equipment for the conditions.
Coroner Nicola Jones is reported as saying: "He fell down a sheet of
ice. Had he an ice axe and crampons he may have been able to arrest his
fall."
Full story at news.bbc.co.uk
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