A CLIMBER has been reported missing after falling on Glen Coe's highest peak, where four died in a tragedy earlier this year.
Mountain Rescue teams were still scouring the area for the man, who has not been named, late into last night after the alarm was raised at around 3.20pm.
The climber, who is understood to be part of a party of four, is believed to have fallen near the summit of Bidean Nam Bian, the highest peak at 3500ft.
On January 19, four climbers were killed in an avalanche on the mountain in one of the biggest death tolls on a Scottish hillside.
Tom Chesters, 28, a PhD student at the University of Hull, Una Finnegan, 25, a junior doctor from Coleraine in Northern Ireland, Christopher Bell, 24, an Ocean Mapping PhD student in Oban, and Rachel Majumder, 29, a doctor at Harrogate District Hospital in Yorkshire, were swept 1000ft down the mountain to their deaths.
This year has been particularly bad for mountaineering in Scotland, with the death toll standing at 11.
A spokesman for Northern Constabulary said: "Glencoe Mountain Rescue team are involved in the search for a climber on Bidean Nam Bian, Glencoe. A report was received around 3.20pm of a man having fallen near the summit."
He added there was no further update.
Lying to the south of Glencoe, Bidean Nam Bian is a complex mountain with many ridges and subsidiary peaks. It also contains the Three Sisters – three steep ridges that extend north into the Glen.
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