Snowdon: scene of four deaths in recent days. Photo: Steve Cadman

Snowdon: scene of four deaths in recent days. Photo: Steve Cadman

Mountain rescue teams have found the body of a man on Snowdon.

Members of the Llanberis, Ogwen Valley and Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Teams had been searching for a missing man since the alarm was raised just after 10am this morning. An RAF search-and-rescue helicopter was also involved in the operation.

A police spokesperson said: “The body is believed to be that of the 70-year-old man from the Halifax, [West Yorkshire] area who was reported missing. However, North Wales Police are still awaiting formal identification.”

The man’s body was found this afternoon. The death is the fourth in 11 days on Wales’s highest mountain. Gwyn Norrell, 27, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, died after falling on Clogwyn Coch. Brothers Christopher McCallion, 30, and James, 35, of Somerset, fell to their deaths at the same site a week previously.