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Second walker dies after mountain fall
A second man has died after falling during a mountain walk.
Philip Derek Burtley Ashton, 43, from Ashbury Drive in Haydock, St Helens, died after falling from Swirral Edge, Helvellyn on Thursday afternoon.
He was winched onto an RAF helicopter and airlifted to Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle for treatment of head injuries where sadly he later died.
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident.
It was the second death after a fall from Swirral Edge this week.
On Monday December 27, 39-year-old Alan Burns was of Bamber Bridge, was out walking on Helvellyn with two friends when he fell through a cornice of snow on Swirral Edge.
Alan was father to two children, Evan (4) and Honor (2), and worked as an accountant for Chorley-based Tenon.
He had previously worked for Leyland Trucks.
His wife, Kerry Burns, said: "Alan was much loved by everyone. He was very much a family man, a wonderful husband and father, and a kind and generous friend. He will be greatly missed by all of us who knew him. We are absolutely devastated."
* Send your tributes to christopher.maguire@lep.co.uk
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Tuesday 22 May 2012
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