Climber fell 600ft to death after chasing camping kit blowing away The climber, who has not been named, was with a group of three others - all from Belgium - on The Old Man of Storr, a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula that was made famous in a Hollywood movie. The lad chased after something that was blowing away in the wind. It was a pure accident. They were in cloud and it was difficult to find the body - it involved searching a dozen gullies for three hours. The dozen members of the rescue team brought the body down below cloud level where a grounded Coastguard search and rescue helicopter from Stornoway took it to Portree. The Skye rescue team then helped one of the climbers back down the 2,359-feet mountain. The other two made their own way down. The rescue helicopter was first sent after the alarm was raised 9.41am but it could not reach the fallen climber because of low cloud. In a separate incident, a hillwalker was airlifted to hospital after also falling on the Isle of Skye. It is not clear how far the man had fallen at Glenbrittle but he was taken to the Dr MacKinnon Memorial Hospital at Broadford on Skye at 2.50pm on Monday with a broken arm and a head injury. His condition is unknown.