Sources close to the search said this morning that the male guide was experienced and that it was pretty normal to rope people together on sections of the Aonach Eagach Ridge.
A climber has been killed in an avalanche on the UK's highest mountain - the first such white death in Scotland in nearly three years. The 49-year-old man was with a fellow climber on Ben Nevis when they plunged nearly 2000 feet on the 4413ft.
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