AN avid young climber died accidentally when he fell on a Scottish mountain, a coroner has ruled.

Hyder Ali Manir set off on his ill-fated expedition to the summit of Britain’s highest peak Ben Nevis near Fort William on Saturday, January 29.

The 20-year-old had gone there with cousin Sabrina Hussain. She was the last person to see him alive.

A video camera Mr Manir took with him, and recovered later, recorded his last moments in which he said: “I have no idea where I am going.”

It showed mist had cut visibility on the mountain to just a few feet.

At an inquest yesterday Worcestershire coroner Geraint Williams said Mr Manir had died from a “significant head injury” with contributory hypothermia.

He also said Mr Manir’s clothing was “wholly inadequate” for the climb.

Mr Williams read a statement from Miss Hussain, who said they started climbing at 9.15am in clear, dry conditions.

Mr Manir, of Canterbury Road, Ronkswood, Worcester, was wearing a black woolly hat, “walking trainers” and had “layered up”.

The two had a map between them, while Miss Hussain recalled Hyder’s mobile phone battery had gone flat the night before.

The rocky ground was increasingly hard going and both Miss Hussain and Mr Manir fell.

“As we climbed it got steeper and more dangerous – there was no path anymore,” she said.

She said the mountain was so steep, the two had to cross the area on there “hands and knees” as the weather started to close in.

“We got to an even more difficult part, and said if we hit another part like this we would go back down,” she said.

The two had got within roughly 400m (1,500ft) of the summit, so Mr Manir handed the backpacks to Miss Hussain and told her to wait while he carried on. She instead headed downhill, but turned back and shouted to Mr Manir: “‘Is it better [going] up there?’ and he shouted back ‘yes’, so I said ‘see you later’. That was the last time I saw him.”

She reached the visitor centre at 4pm, but after waiting in vain she called Mr Manir’s brother, who rang the police sparking a rescue operation.

His body was found on Sunday, February 6, 600m up, minus hat and trainers.

Mr Williams said it was apparent when the weather got bad Mr Manir decided to press on. “He was in fog or mist and obviously fell to his death,” he said.

Camera footage showed Mr Manir – a civil engineering student at the University of East London and former King’s School pupil – had reached the summit.

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