Hiker died after slipping on knife-edge ridge while reaching for dog

36-YEAR-OLD SUFFERED 'UNSURVIVABLE INJURIES'

- By DAVID POWELL Daily Post Reporter [e-mail]

Smith slipped. Picture: Ben Thornley

(Ben Thornley)

A HIKER training for an ultra marathon died after slipping while reaching for his dog from Yr Wyddfa’s Crib Goch ridge.

Thomas Alan Smith was going up Crib Goch when he fell 30 metres, followed by a tumbling fall of at least 150 metres, suffering “unsurvivable” injuries.

During an inquest in Caernarfon, a coroner yesterday found the 36-year-old died from multiple injuries due to a fall from height.

She concluded his death on August 16 last year was an accident.

Kate Robertson, senior coroner for north west Wales, heard Mr Smith, of Bolton, had previously been on Yr Wyddfa and other peaks including Cader Idris.

Shelly Price, his partner and mother of their three children, said in a statement that “fit and healthy” Mr Smith had been training for a 100-mile ultra marathon the following weekend and planned to go up Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) twice.