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Archive Home > 2012 > July > 29 > U.S. climbers die in Peru

U.S. climbers die in Peru


July 29, 2012

LIMA, Peru — Searchers on Saturday found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who apparently plunged to their deaths off a ridge after ascending a glacier-capped 20,000-foot Peruvian peak.

Gil Weiss, 29, of New York, and Ben Horne, 32, of Virginia, fell nearly 1,000 feet off a ridge after....

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