Climber collapses, dies 200m from Mt Kinabalu summit


KOTA KINABALU: A local man fainted during his attempt to climb Mount Kinabalu and was later pronounced dead in Sabah’s hill district of Ranau, some 100km from here.

The 52-year-old man, who was climbing with his wife, was within 200m of reaching Malaysia’s highest peak when he collapsed on Tuesday (June 11).

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