A BLACKBURN climber and his girlfriend were found alive and well after spending a night in a snow hole after becoming stranded in a blizzard on a Scottish mountain.
Matthew Higginson, 23, of Crosshill Road, and his girlfriend Jessica Hopkins, 19, of Yorkshire, were attempting to scale the ice-covered cliffs in the Cairngorms.
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