A FORMER Pendle woman has been killed in a mountaineering accident in Scotland.
Ann Watson, 48, was climbing with two male friends when she fell on Liathach, a 3,100ft peak near Torridon on the West Coast.
The men reported her missing.
A mountain rescue team, supported by a search and rescue helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth, began a search but the helicopter had to return to base because of bad weather.
Miss Watson, a freelance editor in Brighton, was found by the mountain rescue team several hours later in a gully.
The accident happened last Thursday. Miss Watson was a former pupil at Nelson Grammar School, now Walton High School. She left Pendle in the mid-1970s to work in Brighton. Her mother Marjorie, of Hibson Road, Nelson, was being comforted by her other daughter Susan.
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