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World Service,10 May 2010,10 mins

Everest Tragedy

Witness History

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Michael Groom is one of the survivors of a tragic climbing expedition to Mount Everest. He tells Witness how things went badly wrong when a storm struck the world's highest mountain on May 10th 1996.

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