As darkness arrived and he found himself trapped in sub-zero temperatures, Lancashire teenager Ben prepared himself for death on the mountainside - while being plagued by bizarre hallucinations.
A lucky teen escaped death after he plunged down a freezing waterfall and broke his leg on England’s highest mountain. Ben Longton, 18, feared he would ‘die if he fell asleep’ after he spent nine hours trapped alone in a snowy canyon following his 32ft fall on Scafell Pike. The farm worker had neared the top of the 3,209ft peak in the Lake District on March 1 this year in fine weather but faced a freak blizzard on his descent.
'We are working with the National Trust who own the land, to find ways of reducing such incidents.' Ben, from Lancaster, said he had gone up Scafell Pike with his one-year-old Labrador Retriever, Bella, and two-year-old Cocker Spaniel, Dug, during the morning. But as he got close to the summit, the previously good weather suddenly worsened and snow began to blanket the mountainside.
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