{"id":37,"date":"2008-06-08T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=37"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:20","slug":"man-falls-to-death-from-devils-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/man-falls-to-death-from-devils-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Man falls to death from Devil&#8217;s Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/devilsridge1.jpg\" alt=\"The Devil&#039;s Ridge on Sgurr a&#039;Mhaim\" title=\"The Devil&#039;s Ridge on Sgurr a&#039;Mhaim\" \/>A 62 year old man has fallen to his death from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ringofsteall.shtml\">Devil&#8217;s Ridge<\/a> in the Mamores near Fort William. The man is beleived to have fallen around 500 feet; his body was retreived by Lochaber Mountain Rescue team and a Royal Navy helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Confield, the Rescue team leader, said the victim was walking in good weather conditions when he fell. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The poor guy must have just lost his footing and slipped. He fell about 500ft and looks to have died instantly. It was just very unfortunate,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The hot, sunny weather meant the area had become popular with walkers while Ben Nevis was hosting the Mountain Bike World Cup and a number of sponsored walks. The Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon is also taking place in nearby Glenfinnan this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After retrieving the body of the man, the team was called out at 1500 BST to help a woman who fell on Ben Nevis. On Sunday they were also helping to search for a three year old missing from Fort William, who has now been found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 62 year old man has fallen to his death from the Devil&#8217;s Ridge in the Mamores near Fort William. The man is beleived to have fallen around 500 feet; his body was retreived by Lochaber Mountain Rescue team and a Royal Navy helicopter. Terry Confield, the Rescue team leader, said the victim was walking in good weather conditions when he fell. &#8220;The poor guy must have just lost his footing and slipped. He fell about 500ft and looks to have died instantly. It was just very unfortunate,&#8221; he said. The hot, sunny weather meant the area had become popular<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/man-falls-to-death-from-devils-ridge\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}