- Title: NEPAL: Australian climber who was given up for dead arrives safely in Kathmandu
- Date: 31st May 2006
- Summary: LINCOLN ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE BARBARA COMING OUT OF THE CLINIC, MOVING TOWARDS THE VEHICLE AND FINALLY MOVING AWAY (4 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 15th June 2006 13:00
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- Location: Nepal
- Country: Nepal
- Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
- Reuters ID: LVACXOPR1CINUVJH2GJQSHA2EO9C
- Story Text: The Australian Climber Lincoln Hall was reported dead by his team mates as he began descent from Everest summit on Thursday. In fact he was suffering from acute altitude sickness, He was found by a U.S. mountaineer Dan Mazur who gave his own bid to summit the Everest to rescue Lincoln Hall.
Mazur radioed the news back to camp, and in a rescue operation involving about a dozen sherpas and a Russian doctor, Hall was brought to Advanced Base Camp where he was treated for frostbite and altitude sickness.
The doctor here in Kathmandu based Nepal International clinic has to say it's an amazing result considering all the things he had to go through.
"Amazing for what he has been through. He has got some frostbite on four fingers on the left hand, four on the right and a little bit on his thumb and toe... All in all from what the doctor said he's been through he is in amazing shape," team member Simon Bildstan said.
Hall, one of Australia's most experienced climbers, became disoriented, lay down in the snow and resisted attempts by accompanying sherpas to help him, according to an account of the incident posted on the Internet by his expedition leader, Alexander Abranov . - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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