Clogwyn y Person, left, where the body was found. Photo: Eric Jones CC-BY-SA-2.0

A man has died after a fall on Wales’s highest mountain.

Walkers found the injured man shortly after 11am on Saturday and alerted emergency services.

Llanberis and Aberglaslyn Mountain Rescue Teams were called out and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter from RAF Valley flew to the scene, near the Parson’s Nose route on Clogwyn y Person on the Snowdon massif.

The man, in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene and his body was flow to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.

Parson’s Nose is a grade three scramble route on the Clogwyn Y Person Arête on the Snowdon subsidiary peak Garnedd Ugain.