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Brit man, 25, dies after plunging to his death on 'volcano from hell' on holiday
The Mirror ^
| 18 Aug 2022
| Benjamin Lynch
Posted on 08/19/2022 3:58:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A young Brit has died in a tragic accident at the "volcano from hell" in Ecuador.
Gil Banks, 25, was attempting to climb up the Rucu Pichincha volcano near Quito on Sunday, August 14, when he fell to his death.
Banks was originally born in London and grew up in Newton Mearns before he emigrated with his family to Israel, Glasgow Live reported.
He leaves behind his Glaswegian father and English mother following the sad accident.
His horror death was confirmed by the Israeli Embassy in Ecuador.
The Times of Israel reported Banks had recently finished serving in an elite military unit and was travelling around South America.
Gil's friends paid tribute to him, saying he had a "great smile".
The huge Pinchincha volcano tops out at a dizzying 4,784m high and its most recent eruption was in August 1998, leaving Quito covered in a few inches of ash.
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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: ecuador; rucupichincha; volcano; volcanoes
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posted on
08/19/2022 3:58:33 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/19/2022 3:59:18 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
To: Tax-chick
Play stupid games...........
3
posted on
08/19/2022 4:00:23 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
To: BenLurkin
“Glaswegian father...”
What is this?...
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:01:22 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: EEGator
Father was a scot from Glasgow
5
posted on
08/19/2022 4:02:17 PM PDT
by
jpp113
To: BenLurkin
He left very little behind.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:02:39 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: jpp113
Thanks. That’s quite a change of spelling...
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:03:15 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
Climbing. Not in headline.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:04:15 PM PDT
by
Varsity Flight
( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors)
To: Fai Mao
People die doing adventurous things. There's nothing shameful in that. I hope to meet my own death out in the woods on a long winter hike with wolves closing in. It would be the way that I want to go as opposed to being in some hospital bed hooked up to a ventilator. But hopefully that is still decades away.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:05:07 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(3,860,287 users on Truth Social)
To: BenLurkin; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife; Rebelbase; gundog
I think Kramer was going to build a roller coaster there but changed his mind.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:08:34 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: BenLurkin
“Banks was originally born in London”
So??? Does this mean we can “identify” new places of birth???
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:11:19 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Tax-chick
That’s awful. One of my USNA granddaughter’s 3rd year classmates stepped off a ridge and fell 200 feet losing his life. He was spending semester in Chili.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:11:20 PM PDT
by
UB355
(Slow Traffic keep Wright)
To: Varsity Flight
Climbing. Not in headline. First he was climbing, then he was plunging.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:12:49 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: SamAdams76
I figure that running into a tree on a motorcycle at 90mph when you are 90 years old would be a good way to go.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:13:13 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Organic Panic
He was later born in 4 other locales...
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:13:20 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: UB355
Chili is a food. Chile is a country.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:23:32 PM PDT
by
Atomic Vomit
(http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
To: SamAdams76
You could approximate something like that, walking through the ‘hood late at night.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:24:05 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: SamAdams76
When my grandfather was ill (emphysema and lung cancer) he used to go out to the hunting cabin he shared with several of his friends, leave a note saying, “I’m going for a walk east down the creek and then across Joe’s pond dam to the woods,” etc.
He hoped he would die in the woods, but he wanted his body to be found.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:24:06 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
To: UB355
I’m sorry to hear that. Sometimes people just have accidents.
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posted on
08/19/2022 4:25:00 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
To: EEGator
Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were born on probation, in a small house in Kipling Road, Southwark....Doug was born in February 1929 and Dinsdale two weeks later; and again a week after that.
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