Police have named a 58-year-old man from Cheshire who died after falling 50ft over a precipice in Snowdonia. William Malloy, from Middlewich, slipped and fell around 50 feet at about 1230 BST on Sunday.
A helicopter from RAF Valley, along with the Ogwen Valley and Llanberis mountain rescue teams, were involved a 10-hour rescue operation on Tryfan.
Rescuers airlifted on to the 3,000ft snow-capped mountain described conditions as "treacherous".
Mr Malloy had been in a party of six walkers.
Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team leader Al Reed said the group had reached the summit and were making their way back down the mountain's north ridge, when the climber fell.
"The six had varying degrees of experience but the climb was within their capabilities," he told the Daily Post.
"Conditions underfoot were treacherous with wet, slushy snow, but the group was reasonably well-equipped for the conditions."
Forty people were involved in the rescue operation.
Low cloud prevented the helicopter pilot dropping rescuers on the mountainside and the whole operation lasted more than seven hours.
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