Man falls to death trying to retrieve dropped phone

A photo shows the couple happily posing on a cliff before the man plunged to his death trying to retrieve his phone from the edge of a 92-metre ravine.

Haunting pictures show a man’s final moments before he plunged to his death in front of his horrified girlfriend.

Andrea Mazzetto, 30, tragically died after he reportedly lost his balance and fell from a 92 metre cliff while trying to retrieve his phone, The Sun reports.

The horrific incident happened when the 30-year-old was on a hike with his girlfriend, Sara Bragante, on the Altar Knotto trail in the town of Rotzo, in the province of Vicenza, Italy.

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The last photo of Andrea Mazzetto, 30, taken moments before the tragedy. Picture: Newsflash

A haunting photo taken just moments before the tragedy, shows the couple happily posing before Andrea fell trying to retrieve his phone from the edge the ravine.

Initially, the phone was believed to have belonged to his girlfriend but was later confirmed that was Andrea’s, local media reported.

The pair were on a hike at the Altar Knotto spur, in Rotzo, Italy. Picture: Newsflash

Sara shared the couple’s last photo before deleting her Instagram account. Picture: Newsflash

The incident took place around 2pm on Saturday when Andrea, an entrepreneur and fitness enthusiast, lost his balance and fell off a cliff on a hiking trail.

Sara, who was reportedly in a state of shock, alerted emergency services who dispatched a team of firefighters and alpine rescue officers, along with a medical team to the site.

Andrea’s body was recovered with a helicopter.

The couple had been uploading images of their climb up the hiking trail on their Instagram stories that day while Sara posted the last image of the two together before deleting her account.

The post read: “Our last damn photo together.

“You will always be with me, my little bear.”

It comes after a British tourist plunged 30-metres from a mountain in Haramosh, in the Himalayas, after he was chased off by a raging mule.

Earlier this month a mum plunged more than 30-metres to her death in front of her family after climbing over a safety railing at a popular selfie spot.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission