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Boy badly hurt after 100ft fall Boy badly hurt in 200ft peak fall
(about 3 hours later)
An 11-year-old boy who fell 100ft (30.5m) while walking with a family party on Snowdon, has been found alive but badly injured. An 11-year-old boy, who fell 200ft (61m) while walking with family on Snowdon, has suffered serious head injuries.
The boy suffered serious head injuries in the fall and at 1445 BST rescue teams were waiting to airlift him to hospital, said North Wales Police. Rescuers have reached him on the ground but bad weather caused difficulties for an RAF helicopter near the scene.
He plunged into cloud close to the summit of Crib y Ddysgl, a ridge about 3,000ft (914m) up the mountain. Members of Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team are slowly carrying the boy down the mountain to an area where they hope a helicopter can land.
One of the adults in the walking party is the boy's father. The boy fell close to the summit of Crib y Ddysgl, about 3,000ft (914m) up.
Eight members of Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team are at the scene. It is expected that the boy will be off the mountain at 1730 BST but if rescuers have to carry him down to the road it could be as late as 1900 BST.
An RAF helicopter based at Valley in Anglesey was launched when the alarm was raised but it was thought low cloud was preventing the helicopter helping ground-based rescuers. Thirty members of Llanberis and Ogwen Mountain Rescue Teams are involved in the rescue as well as an RAF helicopter based at Valley in Anglesey.
The alarm had been raised at about 1255 BST. He is on a stretcher and is being traversed down the mountain side Gwyn Roberts, chairman of the Llanberis mountain rescue team
The helicopter was launched when the alarm was raised at 1255 BST but low cloud had prevented it from helping ground-based rescuers.
Hospital staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd were preparing for the boy's arrival, said Gwyn Roberts, chairman of the Llanberis mountain rescue team.
Mr Roberts said if the weather did not improve soon a four-wheel-drive vehicle may be used to transport the schoolboy.
"He is in a difficult-to-reach position," he said.
"Stretcher"
"He is on a stretcher and is being traversed down the mountain side.
"Depending on the cloud base we are hoping the helicopter will be able to reach the casualty.
"But we might have to continue lowering him to the point where we can get a four-wheel-drive vehicle to him."
The boy came from a party of walkers containing two families.
One of the adults in the party is the boy's father.
It is understood there were two adults and two children walking there when the incident happened.
Crib y Ddysgl is a narrow ridge not far from the 3,560ft summit of Snowdon.