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Alex Foxfield

National parks tragedies: Two hikers die in separate falls in the Lake District and the Peak District

Sharp Edge in summer.

Two hikers have tragically fallen to their deaths from popular British hiking spots.

On Saturday, a male walker fell from the notorious Sharp Edge, a razor-sharp rocky ridge on Blencathra in the Lake District National Park. Despite efforts from the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team, they discovered that he had not survived the fall and the team escorted the other three members of his group safely off the ridge.

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