Brit man, 25, dies after plunging to his death on 'volcano from hell' on holiday

The Mirror ^ | 18 Aug 2022 | Benjamin Lynch

[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.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s very sad.

[Fai Mao]

Play stupid games...........

[EEGator]

“Glaswegian father...”

What is this?...

[jpp113]

Father was a scot from Glasgow

[Steely Tom]

He left very little behind.

[EEGator]

Thanks. That’s quite a change of spelling...

[Varsity Flight]

Climbing. Not in headline.

[SamAdams76]

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.

[Larry Lucido]

I think Kramer was going to build a roller coaster there but changed his mind.

[Organic Panic]

“Banks was originally born in London”

So??? Does this mean we can “identify” new places of birth???

[UB355]

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.

[Steely Tom]

Climbing. Not in headline.

First he was climbing, then he was plunging.

[Seruzawa]

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.

[EEGator]

He was later born in 4 other locales...

[Atomic Vomit]

Chili is a food. Chile is a country.

[ConservativeMind]

You could approximate something like that, walking through the ‘hood late at night.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[Tax-chick]

I’m sorry to hear that. Sometimes people just have accidents.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

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.