 Image copyright Google Image caption Jane Wilson fell and died while heading across Tryfan's west face 
 
 An experienced mountain walker fell to her death while looking for a safe route off Snowdonia's Tryfan peak, an inquest has heard. Experienced climbers Jane and Gary Wilson, from Stockport , decided against going to the summit of Tryfan as dusk was approaching. Instead, using Mr Wilson's smartphone to guide them, they headed across the mountain's west face but Mrs Wilson fell 30ft (9m) down a vertical cliff. In a statement to John Gittins, the coroner for north Wales east and central, Mr Wilson said his wife went a short distance ahead of him to look for a suitable route. “I asked ‘Is it OK? Is it safe?’ and we said we would only go if we both agreed,” he said. Realising his wife had fallen and that, with limited first-aid knowledge he was unlikely to be able to help her, he climbed to a safer ledge and raised the alarm. Mr Wilson was eventually led to safety by members of the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team who found his wife’s body over 150 metres lower down. The hearing was told Mrs Wilson, a librarian at Manchester University, fractured her skull and sustained other severe injuries in the fall. Detective Constable Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, told the inquest that Mrs Wilson, had apparently fallen 20-30 feet down a vertical cliff, then tumbled about 150 metres down into an area known as Notch arrete. He said that although the weather was dry, the light boots worn by Mrs Wilson were not suitable for such rough terrain and she could have slipped. After abseiling two days later down to the spot where her body was found, he said he was hit by falling rocks. Det Con Tim Bird, the leader of the rescue team, told the inquest: "The change in route was an attempt to traverse the west face to avoid the summit. It would have been better to have retreated the way they had come or gone to the North Ridge, but unfortunately they probably saw a footpath and joined up the dots.” 
 
 The inquest was told Mrs Wilson was a fit and active woman and that she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years. The inquest heard that Mrs Wilson, of St Alban’s Avenue in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, was a fit and active woman and she and her husband had been mountain walking and scrambling for six years. The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.
– A hiker's fatal fall in March has been blamed on using a smartphone app map instead of an actual map. The BBC reports Jane Wilson and her husband Gary were hiking on Tryfan in Wales when it started to get dark and they decided to skip the summit. While attempting to descend the mountain, Gary was looking at an Ordnance Survey app while Jane went a short way ahead to make sure the path was safe, according to the Telegraph. The Manchester Evening News reports Gary heard his wife fall, got to safety, and called for help. Rescuers found the 53-year-old librarian's body at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff with a fractured skull. At a hearing Friday, Jane's was ruled an accidental death due, in part, to using an app instead of a map. "Apart from potential difficulties caused by poor detail on an electronic map, batteries on mobile phones have a nasty habit of running out just when you need them most," the Telegraph quotes a spokesperson for Mountain Rescue England and Wales as saying. A detective says the app map "would have been small and not as detailed" and took the couple on a route that was not the safest. A director with Ordnance Survey says hikers should always use the app in conjunction with an actual map "due to the nature of mobile devices when navigating the real world." Authorities also say Jane wasn't wearing appropriate footwear for the hike. (Go inside the futile search for "Inchworm" on the trail.)