The girlfriend of a climber found dead on a mountain in Vietnam pleaded with him to get help after he got lost, an inquest heard.

Aiden Webb, 22, had set out on a solo climb of Mount Fansipan when he tried to make his way around a landslide and lost the trail path, his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan, 24, said in a written statement.

Miss Baughban, of White Notley, was also in Vietnam and stayed in contact with him by texts and Facebook when he first slipped and cut his bicep and then hurt his knee as the night drew in.

She said: "I was becoming very fraught when he said he had become lost and couldn't find the trail. We realised the last cable car was gone and he had to spend the night on the mountain."

Mr Webb, dressed only in a pair of shorts, said his legs had been soaked since 8am on June 3 2016 when he set out, and Miss Baughan kept messaging him into the early hours of June 4.

At 3.29am Mr Webb sent a message to say he had decided to try going back down the mountain on a trail beside a stream with waterfalls.

In a final text message sent at 6.18am he agreed for Miss Baughan to raise the alarm and request help.

Miss Baughan's reply to him failed to deliver to his phone.

His body was found in water in a ravine almost a week later in an area that local police said had many cliffs, deep gorges and slippery surfaces.

Local police concluded that Mr Webb had drowned while unconscious after a fall in water.

After his body was repatriated to the UK, a post-mortem failed to establish a cause of death.

The examination noted cuts and scratches caused by climbing, but no fractures or haemorrhages.

Yvonne Blake, area coroner for Norfolk, recorded an open conclusion at Monday's hearing at Norfolk Coroner's Court.

She said: "We know that he was trying to climb Fansipan mountain alone. We know that he got into difficulties, he was injured and had a deep cut on his arm.

"He said he badly hurt his knee and couldn't move very well, and we know he was found in a stream.

"The medical cause of death was unascertained as he was embalmed."

His parents Simone and Trevor Webb said in a written statement: "Aiden was such a joy to be around.

"We're incredibly close as a family and feel privileged to have been his parents."