Liam Costello from Childwall who died in a fall on Snowdon in North Wales _220
AN 11-YEAR-OLD boy died instantly after a rock gave way, plunging him 200ft down a mountain, an inquest heard.
Liam Costello, of The Copse, Childwall, Liverpool was walking on Crib Goch, a narrow high level ridge on Snowdon, during a half-term trip organis-ed by Woolton Warriors junior football team last October.
The hearing at Caernarfon yesterday heard Liam and two other boys had accompanied an adult on the ridge towards the summit while other adults led about eight children on a lower, less strenuous route. The group veered off the ridge to avoid strong winds and were heading back onto the ridge when the accident happened.
North west Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones, recording a verdict of accidental death, said Liam’s death was “sheer bad luck”.
He said: “There was no way to anticipate this accident. It was sheer bad luck. He tried to pull himself by grabbing a piece of rotten rock and it broke away.”
Mr Jones commended the parents who had accompanied the boys on the trip for giving them “a sense of adventure” and a sense of “achievement and purpose in life”.
