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Sun 08 Aug 2008Irish climber feared dead
Gerard McDonnell, the Co Limerick climber who scaled the second highest mountain in the world on Friday, is now presumed to have died on his descent.
Mr McDonnell and six colleagues vanished yesterday after they were hit by falling ice at about 8,000 metres while descending the K2 peak on the Chinese/Pakistani border.
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