A BRITISH climber has plunged greater than 300ft to his loss of life whereas scaling a ladder on an picturesque Austrian mountain.
The unnamed 42 12 months outdated fell off the top of the ladder within the Dachstein Mountains, an space well-liked with Instagrammers.
Two helicopter crews rushed to the scene however the man was unable to be saved after the horrific fall.
The ladder, run by Inter-sport, is known as Through-Ferrata – Italian for “iron method” – and lots of climbers confer with it because the “stairway to heaven”.
The Brit was reportedly scaling the ladder alone, and third-party negligence has been dominated out.
Rescuers retrieved his physique from the gully beneath the ladder, as a spokesperson burdened the incident is an “accident”.
The iron path has greater than 3500 posts tagged, and is well-liked with excessive thrill seekers.
In 2020, an excessive athlete was pictured balancing on the ladder with no harness.