Climbing shoe inventor dies in 1,000ft plunge from mountain after losing his footing from peak

A REVOLUTIONARY mountaineer who invented the five-fingered climbing shoe has plunged to his death after falling from a peak in Italy.

Mountain sports enthusiast Robert Fliri, 48, had been descending the 10,000-foot-high Punta d’Oberettes ice wall at Tyrolean peak with two friends in Val di Mazia, near the Swiss border.

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But he slipped and disappeared over the edge falling more than 300 metres (984 feet) as his horrified pals watched on.

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