A cheating husband bombarded his ex-mistress with hundreds of calls and even stalked her to the summit of England's third highest mountain when she broke off their affair.
The woman said she 'froze in terror' when she saw the figure of John Hall, 51, looming above her through the mist at the 3,117ft peak of Helvellyn, in the Lake District.
She said: 'It was quite a foggy day and as we were coming up this steep ridge I looked up and straight away I just froze in fear. I said to my friend: ''It's him."
'I grabbed her in fear. I didn't know what to do. My legs went like jelly, I was clinging to her and couldn't breathe. I was saying, ''He's here, he's here.''
The woman, who was on a hike up the Cumbrian fell with her walking group, had broken off the illicit relationship with Hall nine months earlier. But the married father-of-one refused to accept it was over.
