Garnedd Ugain, with Crib y Ddysgl leading towards Crib Goch. Photo: John S Turner CC-BY-SA-2.0

A woman has died in a fall from a mountain in Snowdonia.

The 26-year-old was fatally injured in the incident on Garnedd Ugain on Wednesday.

Police were alerted at about 11.35am with a report that the woman had fallen from Crib y Ddysgl on the Snowdon massif.

Three mountain rescue teams and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter from RAF Valley went to the woman’s aid after the other members of the group and walkers below the incident on the Pyg Track called for help.

Rescuers said the woman was a European resident.

A spokesperson for Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, which had 22 of its volunteers involved in the incident, said: “A party of three persons, having successfully scrambled over Crib Goch, were traversing on the Goat Track below the Crib y Ddysgl ridge, when the 26-year-old female took a tumbling fall of about 100m.

“The team, supported by a Sea King helicopter from RAF Valley and members of the Aberglaslyn MRT and members of the RAF Valley MRT, attended the scene and recovered the casualty from the scene to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor where she was pronounced dead.”

Nine members of the Aberglaslyn team and two from the RAF Valley team took part in the 4½-hour rescue.

A Llanberis team spokesperson said there was low cloud on the mountain, with a fresh to strong breeze. It was damp underfoot but the rescuer said the party was suitably equipped for the terrain and weather.

Crib y Ddysgl, the east ridge of Garnedd Ugain, links Crib Goch with the summit of the 1,065m (3,494ft) mountain, part of the Snowdon horseshoe which includes Snowdon’s 1,085m (3,560ft) summit and Y Lliwedd.