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Mountain Climber, 26, falls 196ft to his death in freak accident after rock cut his rope
plummeted around 196ft to their death in a freak accident when their rope was cut by a falling rock.An inquest at Ruthin County Hall heard on Wednesday (September 21) that Kieran James Strudwick, 26, from Uckfield in East Sussex, was killed on January 30, on the Dolmen Ridge in North Wales.He has been climbing with his friend Tom Haynes, then 25, when the horror fall happened at around midday.READ MORE: Putin's nuclear threat is 'something we should take very seriously', says UK ministerThey had headed up to the famous mountain beauty spot to go climbing and had stayed at Penmachno, North Wales Live reports.Having completed a number of scrambles earlier in the day, they decided they wanted to take on the ridge - a grade 3 scramble.