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A former soldier tragically died on the stroke of 11am on Armistice Day when he plunged 650ft from a notorious mountain ridge in a climbing accident, an inquest heard.
Trained mountaineer William Onion, 33, lost his footing while on a perilous ridge on Mount Snowdon - at the same time as two minutes' remembrance silence was being observed.
William, a personal trainer, was with a group of five other walkers on a charity hike on the mountain when the tragedy struck.
In a tribute, his father Alastair said: 'He passed at 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a soldier through and through, a son that no man could have been prouder of.
'I have no words to convey how devastated we are. William fell from Snowdon mountain. He was doing what he loved, he was with friends, that much we are thankful for.
A former soldier tragically died on the stroke of 11am on Armistice Day when he plunged 650ft from a notorious mountain ridge in a climbing accident, an inquest heard
Trained mountaineer William Onion, 33, lost his footing while on a perilous ridge on Mount Snowdon - at the same time as two minutes' remembrance
