Experienced climber raising funds for cancer-stricken kids dies scaling mountain

Alex Pancoe was suffering from leukaemia, which caused him difficulties on a previous climbAn experienced mountaineer has died on a Himalayan mountain while trying to raise funds for a children’s cancer charity.Father-of-two Alexander Pancoe, 39, from the US state of Illinois, fell unresponsive shortly before going to bed on Sunday at Camp II on Nepal’s Mount Makalu, the fifth-tallest mountain in the world.Mr Pancoe, who had survived a brain tumour and was still battling leukemia, h