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Sporting Witness: Alison Hargreaves

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Alison Hargreaves

19/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Alison Hargreaves

Memories of the great British woman mountaineer killed in the Himalayas in August 1995.

In August 1995, the British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves was killed in an accident on K2 in the Himalayas. Lucy Burns tells her story through archive BBC interviews and the memories of her biographer and fellow climber, Ed Douglas.

PHOTO: Alison Hargreaves on Everest in 1995 (Press Association)

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