Teenager dies after being struck by lightning on Germany’s highest peak

Snow covers the Schneeferner glacier near the top of Germany’s highest mountain Zugspitze (Matthias Schrader/AP)

A man has died after being struck by lightning near the summit of Germany’s highest peak.

The 18-year-old German resident was one of a group of three young men who took the mountain railway up the Zugspitze late on Sunday afternoon and then continued to the summit, which is a climb of about 260ft from a terrace used by many visitors.