Mr Rattray fell 500ft on the descent from Snowdon. Photo: Chris March CC-BY-SA-2.0

A walker who fell to his death on Wales’s highest mountain has been named.

Dylan Arwel Rattray, 21, fell 150m (500ft) on Snowdon on Good Friday after straying from the path on to steep ground when he was coming down from the summit with a companion.

The pair attempted to make their way back up the mountainside but Mr Rattray, of Aberystwyth, fell at the site near the Trinity Face.

A Sea King search and rescue helicopter from RAF Valley on Anglesey flew members of the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team to the site. Members of the public also went to the man’s aid, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

His friend and six passers-by who went to help the fallen walker were winched from their precarious position on the mountainside.

North West Wales Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones has begun an investigation into the incident and a post-mortem examination has been carried out.