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Wednesday 7 December 2011

Freeze a jolly good fellow


A CLIMBER d-ices with death – by scaling a 450ft waterfall covered in dangling icicles while UPSIDE DOWN.

Will Gadd, 44, and Tim Emmett, 37, spent two weeks meticulously plotting their ascent of the notoriously tricky Helmcken Falls in Canada - dubbed the world's hardest climb.

They had to battle deadly ice spray - which could freeze them to death in minutes - temperatures as low as -25°C, and the thought of one mistake sending them plunging into a frozen 100ft deep ice hole below.     More Read

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