An Irish film is up for a top prize in tonight's Sundance Film Festival Awards in the US, known as the Oscars for independent film-makers.

The documentary on the expedition up the world’s second highest mountain, which claimed the life of Limerick’s Ger McDonnell has won a major distribution deal in the US.

In Aug 2008, 24 climbers from several international expeditions converged on High Camp of K2, the last stop before the summit of the most dangerous mountain on earth.

If he had gotten down to Camp Four that day and had heard the Koreans were in trouble, chances are he would have gone back up to try to help them. He was just that kind of person.

Savills are selling two parcels of land in Co Tipperary at the moment, and both may have more than agricultural potential.

A CO Limerick mountain climber who died in a brave rescue attempt on K2 has been given an award for bravery.

EIGHT secondary school students are packing their bags for the adventure of a lifetime in which they will retrace the journey of Antarctic explorers Robert F Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Tom Crean.

A RURAL community which nestles on the flatlands by the southern shore of the Shannon Estuary yesterday gathered to mark the life of one of their own who conquered the highest reaches on earth.

THE brother and girlfriend of the Limerick climber confirmed dead in the Himalayas are preparing to travel to the area to meet the leader of the ill-fated expedition.

CLARE O’LEARY yesterday became the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

NOT a lot of people know this, but Mount Everest is barely the size of a half-decent snooker table. Clare O’Leary discovered that for herself yesterday when she became the first Irish woman to scale the world’s highest peak.

FOR a man who has crested the world’s tallest peaks you would think Pat Falvey might have little trouble climbing onto a two-foot platform to wave to well-wishers.

THE Irish Mount Everest expedition team had a miraculous escape when a helicopter crashed on the mountain yesterday, killing one crewman and three climbers on the ground.