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AN experience­d mountainee­r died while looking for a safe route on one of Snowdonia’s most notorious peaks.

Jane Wilson, also known as Jane Marshall, was with her husband Gary heading up Tryfan, but instead of carrying on to the summit they decided to head across its west face.

Trying to negotiate its steep inclines and loose rocks towards Ogwen Cottage using only a Smartphone app, Mrs Wilson went ahead of her husband to look for a suitable route.

Just as he was asking her whether it was safe, he heard his wife cry out and then the sound of rocks falling.

Realising his wife had fallen, and knowing he only had limited first aid capabiliti­es himself, Mr Wilson climbed to a safer ledge to raise the alarm.

The Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue team was dispatched, and after a search they discovered Mrs Wilson’s body 150 metres below the spot from which she’d fallen.

She had a fractured skull and a number of other severe injuries.

Mrs Wilson, 53, from Stockport, had fallen 20 to 30 feet down a vertical cliff before tumbling down onto the area known as the Notch arrete.

At the inquest into her death in Ruthin, Detective Constable Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, said the light boots she had been wearing were not suitable for such rough terrain.

He added: “The change in route was an attempt to traverse the west face to avoid the summit.

“It would have been better to have retreated the way they had come or gone to the North Ridge, but unfortunat­ely they probably saw a footpath and joined up the dots.”

He said that there would not have been as much detail on the smartphone app as on a normal map.

The inquest heard that Mrs Wilson, an academic engagement librarian at Manchester University, of St Alban’s Avenue, Stockport, was a fit and active woman and she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years.

She had run in the New York Marathon and Great North Run.

The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.

 ??  ?? ● Jane Wilson, 53, from Stockport and inset the formidable Tryfan in Snowdonia
● Jane Wilson, 53, from Stockport and inset the formidable Tryfan in Snowdonia
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