Celebration of climber’s life

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.

Celebration of climber’s life

There isn’t a hill in sight near Kilcornan where Ger McDonnell was reared and went to national school.

Yet it was here he cultivated his dream to climb great mountains.

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