This is the longest glacier in the Himalayas, stretching around 25km from its beginnings on the high slopes of Cho Oyu.

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It is here, over the tops of the inevitable ducks, that Gokyo Ri first comes into view, its brown rounded form a contrast to the snow-covered, sharp-tipped lines of Cho Oyu beyond.

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Mr Cinnamond, from Banbridge in County Down, was one of four climbers from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who had travelled to northern Nepal to scale Mount Cho-Oyu.

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