'Wonderful' nurse made final phone call to girlfriend before tragic Snowdon fall
28.09.2022 - 18:01
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A "wonderful and caring" nurse tragically fell to his death while climbing on Mount Snowdon, an inquest heard. Ade Junior Ajayi, 30, was holidaying in north Wales with his partner Eleanor Forde.
They had been staying at Anglesey glamping site with their two dogs when Mr Ajayi, an experienced hillwalker, decided to climb Snowdon on June 6. The trainee nurse, who was employed at Montagu Hospital in Doncaster, told his girlfriend that he would be back by midday so they could go for a walk on the beach with their dogs.
An inquest held in Caernarfon heard that Mr Ajayi called Miss Forde at roughly 9.30am to say he was making his way back down the mountain and was following the train tracks on the Llanberis Pass. She never heard from him again and tried to phone him at lunch-time, but was unable to get through, Wales Online reports.
By 2pm, she had called North Wales Police, who contacted Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team. One of its members Elfyn Harlech Jones said that despite generally good weather conditions, there was a "thick mist" covering the Snowdon summit down to a level of around 700m, which would have "significantly affected the visibility on the tops".
Later that afternoon police informed Miss Forde that Mr Ajayi had been found by two walkers. In a statement read during the inquest, Miss Forde described her partner as a "wonderful and caring" person who "loved life and lived it to the full".
She said: "He loved his patients and they adored him. He would always go out of his way to help them, nothing was too much trouble when it came to them. My heart is completely broken and I can't believe he is not around anymore.
"My world is shattered and even our little dogs are still looking for him. Ade will be missed more