Mountain fall

A CLIMBER told yesterday how he feared he might die as he fell 1,000 feet down a Scottish mountain.

Adam Potter, 35, tumbled down the steep slope after slipping near the top of 3,589ft (1,094m) Sgurr Choinnich Mor, around 8km east of Ben Nevis.

However, rescuers in a Royal Navy helicopter found him standing up reading a map when they arrived on the scene on Saturday afternoon.

He broke his back in three places but is able to walk and was yesterday recovering in hospital in Glasgow.