'I watched my aunty plunge 60ft down a Swiss mountainside - then three words saved her life'

Sarah Robert and her nephew Ed Farnworth were hiking in Switzerland when disaster stuck.

The pair are big fans of the outdoors, and both class themselves as experienced hikers. On June 17, they set off on what they thought was another memorable trip which they had both researched beforehand.

Ed, a scheduling manager at BP, regularly goes and visits his auntie who is now living in Switzerland. The 31-year-old from Bolton was leading their descent down a mountainside when Sarah, 59, plunged more than 60ft.

She suffered serious injuries - including a broken arm, gashed forehead and a severe concussion. They were lost - away from flat ground, in the woods and there were no landmarks.

And the duo, Ed says, would have been stranded were it not for three simple words: Crabmeat, hers, froze.

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Ed said: “For most of my adult life i’ve been drawn to the outdoors, travelling, my big thing is getting out and seeing the world.

“My auntie hikes a lot too, with her friends and work colleges. It’s not as if we had not done stuff like this before, we were used to different terrain and everything.”

Ed said: “The weather was great; we’d stopped off for lunch and we were having an amazing day. I was leading the way in front of her on our decent down the mountain when I turned around and saw she had started to lose her balance.

“She was very close to the edge and started to fall, she had a backpack on, so her balance was all out of sync. She tumbled over the edge and from then on, she didn’t stop tumbling down. She was hysterical, shouting my name and shouting help.

“I’ve never heard her, or anyone sound like that before.”

During Sarah’s fall she hit