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Article: Millionaire Jonathan Peacock died from DVT after a flight. His widow wants others to avoid the same fate; Tragedy: Jonathan suffered severe breathing problems.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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Byline: KATHRYN KNIGHT
THE video footage may have been a little shaky, but there was nomistaking the sentiment. As he sat in his tent on China's soaring Mustagatamountain, exhausted but apparently in good spirits, Jonathan Peacock explainedwhy he was abandoning his quest to reach the peak after battling chronicfatigue and breathing difficulties.
'The mountain will still be here for another year, but I've got far moreimportant things at home,' he said. For his wife Katharine, mother of his twoyoung children James, three, and one-year-old Sophie, the message wasbittersweet.
Jonathan never made it homeor even off the mountainalive. Within 24 hours of filming he had ...