The 'scrambler' fell from Bristley Ridge, between Tryfan and Glyder Fach at about 15:00 GMT on Saturday.
Two climbers tried to rescue the man but could only secure him to the rock face, Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue told BBC Wales.
He was airlifted to Ysbyty Gwynedd where he was pronounced dead.

Goodwin, who gave Trevor Francis his Blues debut, led the club to two FA Cup semi-finals and promotion to the old Division One in his time in charge, from June 1970 to September 1975.
He had previously been manager of both Scunthorpe United and Brighton.
During his playing career, he was a wing-half for Matt Busby's United, then Leeds before finishing at Scunthorpe.
As one of the Busby Babes, he made his first team breakthrough at Old Trafford following the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.
He played in the first game after Munich, just a fortnight later, when the team-sheet in the programme was famously left blank for the club's FA Cup fifth-round win over Sheffield Wednesday.
And he was in the rebuilt United team all the way to Wembley, where they lost 2-0 to local rivals Bolton Wanderers.
Heywood-born Goodwin also played first-class cricket over two summers, making 11 appearances as a fast bowler for his native Lancashire, in which he took a career-best 5-35 against Middlesex at Lord's in June 1955.
After leaving Birmingham in 1975, Goodwin took up an offer to move to the then burgeoning North American Soccer League, where he had two spells as coach, then club president of the Minnesota Kicks.
He remained in the United States for the rest of his life, and died at home in Gig Harbor, Washington State at the weekend.
Birmingham City will pay tribute at Tuesday night's home game with Bolton Wanderers at St Andrew's. The players will wear black armbands and there will be a minute's applause.

The two athletes had been competing in the 3000m women's-track final - which Decker, who was running for the US, had been widely tipped to win.
But she fell after a collision with Budd, who was part of the British team.
Budd, who was born in South Africa and aged 17 at the time of the race, was later accused of tripping her up.
The crowd's hostile reaction after Decker's fall caused Budd, who famously ran barefoot and had been winning the race, to finish seventh.
Decker, who had fallen into the infield grass clutching her right thigh, was carried from the track in tears.
Budd had already received international attention after her application for British citizenship was fast-tracked earlier in 1984, in time for her to compete at the Los Angeles games.
As a South African, Budd would have been ineligible to compete as the country had been banned from international sport because of its policy of apartheid.
The new film will feature archive footage as well as new interviews with Budd, Decker and others who were close to the events leading up to the race.
On reuniting with Decker in the documentary, Budd commented: "I knew making this film would be opening up the black box in my mind which I haven't opened since that day. I thought it was time."
Decker added, "I still think about that race every day. Making this film has been cathartic."
The 90-minute film, called The Fall, will premiere on Sky Atlantic on 29 July.
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Former Birmingham City manager and Manchester United player Freddie Goodwin has died at the age of 82.
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Zola Budd and Mary Decker are to be reunited in a new documentary for the first time since their famous collision at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.