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Sat 06 Jun 2007Irish climber set to make new world recordThe Irish climber bidding to set a new world record for the fastest ascent of the seven highest summits on all seven continents, looked set yesterday to smash the current record by as much as 21 days.Wicklow-based climber Ian McKeever had hoped to summit the final peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska, on his Ulster Bank Seven Summits Challenge yesterday, but dangerously high winds forced the 37-year-old Irishman and his British climbing partner Dave Pritt to turn back at 5,550m on the mountain.