Corrie Fee, where the climber's body was found. Photo: Gwen and James Anderson CC-BY-SA-2.0

The climbing community has led tributes to a former president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club who died at the weekend.

Dougie Lang’s body was found by rescuers in the early hours of Saturday after he failed to return from a solo climbing trip to Corrie Fee in Glen Doll, Angus.

Police said they believed the 69-year-old, of Dundee, had been caught in an avalanche.

Mr Lang was also a member of the Carn Dearg Mountaineering Club and was renowned for many first ascents in his rockclimbing career, including the Great Stack of Handa in Sutherland with Hamish MacInnes and Graeme Hunter and the Ardverikie Wall on Binnein Shuas in Glen Spean.

Fellow SMC former president Ken Crocket told the BBC: “He was the most enthusiastic climber you could meet. Nothing could stop him. He would go out in all conditions and even on poor weather days.”

And former climbing partner Graeme Hunter told The Courier: “I am shocked the guy’s gone. I am not sure what’s happened yet but he was most competent and had climbed at the highest level on rock and ice. It looks like he had done a route on his own and just got caught out on his way down.”

Mr Lang is survived by his wife Denise and daughter Hilary.