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Chilling account of how RAF officer fell 3,300ft to his death in the Himalayas

An RAF mountaineer died in Pakistan after falling 3,300ft off one of the highest peaks on Earth, in the Himalayas.

Francois Cazzanelli saw RAF Wing Commander Gordon Henderson, from Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland, lose his balance and plunge about 3,300ft as he tried to reach the top of Broad Peak in the Karakoram mountains, on the border of Pakistan and China.

The dad-of-two, an extremely experienced climber, was taking part in the British Services Mountaineering Expedition to Broad Peak, which sits close to the Chinese border around five miles from K2 when he ran into difficulty.

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