Left Everest climber still alive

[Roon]

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- An Australian mountaineer left for dead near the summit of Mt. Everest has been found alive after spending a night out on the world's highest mountain, but remains severely ill with frostbite and altitude sickness.

Lincoln Hall, 50, was initially reported to have died of cerebral edema, or swelling of the brain, as he descended the mountain, according to expedition leader Alexander Abramov, on internet site www.mounteverest.net.

However, climbers ascending the next day discovered Hall still alive near the peak and launched an immediate rescue operation.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/australia.everest.reut/index.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow! Not very nice of Abramov!!!!!!

[newyawker99]

2. Agreed.

:thumbsdown:

[SmokingJacket]

3. That Everest website is a kick.

"With or without your fingers, I'll love you all the same!" http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=3308

:eyes:

Frankly, I'd be pissed if my husband lost his fingers because he had to show the world what a manly man he was.