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Dewsbury: Climber killed in Pyrenees ice fall UPDATED
Investigations are ongoing into the death of a Dewsbury man on a climbing trip to Spain.
Richard Greenwood, 56, was killed in a fall on Tuesday near the 9,000-feet high Pico de Frondiellas in the Pyrenees.
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Fellow climber John Peter Field, 57, from Coventry, also died, while a third man, survived.
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The friends are thought to have been hiking on ice and snow when the accident happened on Tuesday evening. The alarm was not raised until 1pm on Wednesday when the surviving climber reached a mountain refuge.
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It is understood the three crossed into Spain from France.
Civil Guard sources said that one climber was believed to have fallen down a sheer drop and the second to have fallen after him when he went to his aid.
It was not until the third climber woke-up the following morning that he realised his companions had disappeared.
It took rescue teams four hours to reach the bodies.
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