Tragedy has hit the Welsh mountains after a man plunged to his death from a knife-edge ridge.
The walker, 36, fell off Crib Goch, a notoriously dangerous precipice on the approach to Snowdon, which Welsh speakers call Yr Wyddfa, on Saturday morning.
North Wales Police and the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team rushed to the location by helicopter but pronounced the man dead at the scene.
A spokesperson for the force said: 'We are saddened to confirm that a 36-year-old man has died following a fall from Crib Goch in Eryri National Park on Saturday, 16 August.
'Emergency services, including North Wales Police and the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, responded to reports of a man falling from the ridge at approximately 11:30am.
