It started off like every other adventure for the three best friends - but just two returned from their climb. Best friends Matty Belcher, Brandan Smith and Jack Carne had travelled from South Yorkshire to the mountains of north Wales for a weekend of camping and climbing. It ended in tragedy, when a rock grabbed by 23-year-old Jack came loose in his hands. Before his friends could react, he was gone - tumbling 200ft (60m) to his death. Brandan and Matty called mountain rescue, but they could do nothing to save Jack. The two men had to wait on a ledge for hours until they were found, then had to leave the mountain without him. It wouldn't be until the following day that volunteers from Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue were able to recover Jack's body from the rocky slopes of Glyder Fawr in Eryri, also known as Snowdonia. Jack was just 10m from the 1,000m (3,284 ft) summit of Wales' fifth highest peak when the unimaginable happened. "We'd probably walked for about four hours - and then it all went wrong," said Matty. "It was no harder than anything we'd done before - it was actually easier than a lot of stuff we'd done before. It just could have been anybody." An inquest into Jack's dea
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It started off like every other adventure for the three best friends - but just two returned from their climb. Best friends Matty Belcher, Brandan Smith and Jack Carne had travelled from South Yorkshire to the mountains of north Wales for…
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It started off like every other adventure for the three best friends - but just two returned from their climb. Best friends Matty Belcher, Brandan Smith and Jack Carne had travelled from South Yorkshire to the mountains…
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It started off like every other adventure for the three best friends - but just two returned from their climb. Best friends Matty Belcher, Brandan Smith and Jack Carne had travelled from South Yorkshire to the mountains of north Wales for…
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