A MAN in his forties has died of a suspected heart attack on Cuilcagh Mountain. 
It’s understood he had just stepped off the famous boardwalk as part of a team building exercise with his work colleagues when he passed away on Tuesday afternoon.
Emergency services, along with the North West Mountain Rescue Team (NWMRT), were called to the scene after reports that a man was suffering from chest pain.
It’s understood friends of the man, believed to be in his forties and from England, began to administer CPR until paramedics arrived and continued for 45 minutes. However he was pronounced dead at the scene. 
Two rapid respond paramedics and accident and emergency crew were despatched to the incident despite the mountainous terrain making access difficult for one of the vehicles.
 “He was in a group of friends, part of a Northern Ireland food company, and they were on a team-building exercise. He was located down on the lane at the bottom of the boardwalk,” NWMRT’s Diane Sheridan told The Impartial Reporter yesterday (Wednesday).
“He was quite high up, there was snow on the path, it was slippery and there was a snow shower when we first landed, but all the emergency services worked very well together,” she said. 
HM Coastguard had been informed of the situation and Heli R 199 had been tasked and was on route but was later stood down.
The group, made up of local volunteers, then helped to carry the man’s body off the mountain. 
A spokesman for Fermanagh and Omagh District Council said its officers visited the scene as soon as they were alerted and provided assistance to the emergency services. 
“The Council also provided welfare support to the accompanying party both at the scene and at the Marble Arch Caves Visitors’ Centre,” said the spokesman. 
Democratic Unionist Councillor Keith Elliott said he was “deeply saddened” to learn of the death.
“The circumstances are tragic and his death will be felt by all in the local community. I want to praise those who were there to provide immediate medical support. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and work colleagues as they come to terms with their loss,” he said.
Council Vice Chairman Alex Baird, a member of the UUP, also offered his “sincere condolences” to the family and friends of the man. “I understand that he and a group of his work colleagues had just completed the ascent and descent of the Cuilcagh boardwalk when he sadly passed away,” he said.