Hero’s last climb to be broadcast across US

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, Kilcornan mountaineer Mr McDonnell (right) became the first Irishman to scale the world’s most challenging mountain, K2.

But he died the next day after turning back to try save the lives of three Korean climbers who had got into trouble.