A 21-YEAR-OLD fell to her death at a Meirionnydd quarry after attempting to record a daring video for her Facebook profile, an inquest as heard.

Thrill-seeking Sarah Brewster died when she probably slipped from a clifftop and plunged up to 50ft to a ledge below it was revealed on Tuesday.

Her intention had been to leap over the ledge - a former tramway at an old slate quarry - and into the ice-cold water of the Blue Lagoon at Friog, near Fairbourne, while a friend filmed her for Facebook.

It was an area identified on social media for thrills, but two girl friends with Sarah felt that the leap from cliffs was unsafe, coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones was told at the Caernarfon hearing.

He concluded that Sarah, a waitress of Penkridge, Stafford, who was killed instantly by a fractured skull, died due to an accident.

The inquest heard that she and her friends Katie Taylor and Victoria Walters had driven to the area at the end of May and first of all enjoyed a swim in the lagoon, with video recordings being made on mobile phone.

Miss Taylor was too upset to give evidence but instead her statement was read.

She said Sarah, a friend for 13 years, had suggested the trip and on the way they had chatted, sang and laughed.

Sarah said she was going to leap from the cliff into the lake, over the ledge, and asked for it to be filmed - possibly for her Facebook profile.

“I told her I wasn’t happy and it didn’t look safe and I wasn’t going to do it,” said Miss Taylor.

Sarah fell feet first and plunged to the ledge.

The coroner told Miss Walters, who gave evidence, that he wasn’t surprised she was reluctant to jump from the cliff.

He believed Sarah lost her footing, rather than jumping or diving.

“To jump into the lake she would have to have done the equivalent of a long jump to clear the ledge,” the coroner remarked.

Giving his conclusion Mr Pritchard Jones said it was a very dangerous place and to leap through the air “was a very silly thing to do”.

He added: “The warning is that leaping over an obstacle like this ledge to reach the water is something that is extremely dangerous and any failure would result in death.”