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Snowdon walker airlifted after 1,300ft Watkin Path fall | |
(about 17 hours later) | |
A 21-year-old walker escaped with cuts to the head after slipping about 1,300ft (400m) on a path on Snowdon. | |
The man from Leicestershire was described as "very, very lucky" after he was airlifted by RAF helicopter to hospital in Bangor. | The man from Leicestershire was described as "very, very lucky" after he was airlifted by RAF helicopter to hospital in Bangor. |
Llanberis Mountain Rescue was called out to help the man on the Watkin Path. | |
Meanwhile, a 37-year-old man from Belfast suffered a jaw injury when he fell about 300ft (90m) from the Miners Track on the same mountain. | |
The walker from Belfast did not have crampons despite recent warnings from mountain rescuers that hikers and climbers needed to be equipped properly on the frozen peaks. | |
He was also flown to hospital in Bangor. | He was also flown to hospital in Bangor. |
It is the latest in a series of operations for the RAF Valley crew in Snowdonia over the Bank Holiday weekend: |
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