“These visuals show an 81-year-old man named Nick Gardner scaling a crevasse”
Social media posts
Claim dated 6 Sep 2023.
FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
Although there is a real person named Nick Gardner who, at the age of 82, finished climbing Scotland’s 282 Munros (Mountains higher than 3000 Feet), the man seen in this video is not him. He is a Russian rock climber named Andrey Andronovich Didukh
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 6 September 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 8 September 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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