Third Cairngorm avalanche victim is thought to be west Cornwall teenager
An 18-year-old from west Cornwall is thought to have been one of three climbers killed in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands last week.
The teenager, who is believed to be from Newbridge and a former Truro College student, was buried under 12ft of snow when the avalanche struck last Thursday.
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Ben Macdui in The Cairngorms. A west Cornwall teenager is believed to have been the third victim of an avalanche on the mountain range last Thursday.
He was a member of two mountaineering groups that were making their way up the opposite sides of a gorge in the Cairngorms when the avalanche struck.
He along with the other victims, who have been identified as two off duty Royal Air Force personnel, were dug out and airlifted from the Chalamain Gap area to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary but doctors were unable to save them.
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The Northern Constabulary Police have not yet confirmed the third climber's identity but it is believed his next of kin have been informed.
The RAF personnel were identified as Flight Lieutenant Fran Capps, 32, and Squadron Leader Rimon Than, 33, of RAF Valley in North Wales.
The incident was the latest of many accidents to have occurred on Scottish mountains in the past few weeks..
Graham Connell, 31, from Castleford, was found dead last Monday after a large scale search, while three men survived a 150metre fall in Cairngorms earlier in February.
In January four people were killed in an avalanche in Glencoe.
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