Ger Mcdonnell
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Co Down bodyguard who reached K2 summit says he would ‘do it all again’
- Offbeat
- July 26, 2018, 09:08
Co Down climber Noel Hanna (51) who is one of the first Irishmen to survive an ascent of K2 says he would do it all again. Hanna has a habit of that,(...)

K2 climber Jason Black lost two colleagues on the world’s second highest mountain
- Offbeat
- July 24, 2018, 20:50
When Jason Black became only the second Irish man to survive an ascent of K2, the world’s second highest mountain, he had already witnessed one collea(...)

Two Irish climbers make summit of world’s second-highest mountain, K2
- Offbeat
- July 22, 2018, 17:52
Two Irish mountaineers have reached the summit of the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, this weekend, 10 years after the first summit by the late L(...)

Donegal man to attempt K2 to honour first Irishman to summit mountain
- Offbeat
- July 5, 2018, 01:02
Ten years ago this summer, Limerick mountaineer Ger McDonnell died after becoming the first Irishman to summit K2, the world’s second highest mountain(...)

Bear-dodging and pedalling: Irish woman cycles across Canada
- Irish News
- September 7, 2017, 01:00
When Dr Karen Weekes rocked up to the reception of a five-star hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia just before midnight a few weeks ago, she knew it might b(...)

K2 deaths in 2008 due to “summit fever”
- Irish News
- December 4, 2013, 01:00
“Summit fever” led to the loss of 11 mountaineers, including Irishman Ger McDonnell, on the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in 2008, according(...)

Death on K2: inching towards answers
- Culture
- November 23, 2013, 01:00
In early August 2008 the sport of mountaineering suffered one of its worst disasters. Over two chaotic days 11 climbers died around a bottleneck near (...)

The Summit
- Film
- November 22, 2013
Nick Ryan has set himself a considerable challenge with this documentary concerning an unprecedented series of disasters that befell mountaineers on K(...)