{"id":369746,"date":"2026-01-14T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369746\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:49:08","slug":"runner-died-falling-off-crib-goch-while-picking-up-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369746\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner died falling off Crib Goch while picking up his dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shelly Price said she had spoken to him on the phone that morning after he had taken the Watkin Path to the summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was very excited about the rest of the day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walker Stuart Alder was also on Crib Goch, which reaches 3,028ft (923 metres), at about 11:30 BST with his two children when he saw Smith with his spaniel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the inquest: &#8220;The man leaned forward and reached for the dog. He lost his footing and tripped and fell off the ledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called 999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow hiker Connor Holler was carrying a large first aid kit with trauma equipment, and managed to reach Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said, &#8220;it was instantly apparent that he had suffered catastrophic injuries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He bandaged Smith&#8217;s head, but he then stopped breathing and had no pulse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shelly Price said she had spoken to him on the phone that morning after he had taken the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-369746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}