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Wednesday, 31 May 2006
Lincoln Hall, the Australian mountaineer who was given up for dead in Mount Everest was in fact alive, contrary to earlier reports. His friend, Jonathan Chester, related Hall's story of survival in Richard
Bang's column, Adventure Beat at the Yahoo! News website last Monday.
Chester said in the column that Hall's Everest quest began with the latter first encountered it in 1984. He had the opportunity to climb it this year when he took the job as guide for 15 year-old Chris Harris and his father Richard. Their team, including filmmaker Mike Dillon, signed with the "7 Summits Club" commercial expedition led by Russian climber Alexander Abramov, according to Chester.
The father and son tandem was struck with altitude sickness and decided not to pursue their summit bid. Hall, however, decided to push through and eventually reached the summit at approximately 9 am on May 25th. On his way down along with two Sherpas, he was hit with cerebral edema and collapsed at around 8,800 meters. The Sherpas helped him down the mountain, but when his condition seemed to worsen at around 7 pm, his two guides determined that there was nothing more they could do to help him.
Seeing that it was already getting late, Abramov ordered the guides to abandon Hall and save themselves. Abramov later issued the news that Hall perished and the news spread soon after that.
The following morning, Hall was spotted by American guide Dan Mazur and his clients spotted him. Seeing some signs of life, Mazur gave some tea to Hall and radioed base camp. Upon receiving the news, Abramov immediately ordered some Sherpas to come to Hall's aid and rescue him. By 11 am, Hall was moved down by three Sherpas and Mazur.
According to Chester, Hall is, "one very lucky person to have survived cerebral edema and a night out on Everest in the death zone," which is above 8,000 meters. He further added that, "his friends rejoice and thank the teams and Sherpas who risked their lives, their summit bids and dreams to save him from certain death."
The entire article can be read at travel.news.yahoo.com.
Friday, 26 May 2006
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on May 24, Wednesday, that Sir Edmund Hillary denounced a New Zealand climbing team for not helping a British man who lay dying near Mount Everest's summit.
H illary criticized the team of Mark Inglis, who recently became the first double amputee on Everest, for not helping Briton David Sharp when the former's team saw him suffering from a lack of oxygen on his way down from the summit. Inglis said, however, that there was nothing more they could do to save Sharp's life since he was barely alive when they saw him. Aside from that, Inglis said that the extreme cold that day prevented them from being able to do anything to help Sharp.
Hillary also said that his first climb with Tenzing Norgay to the Everest would have been abandoned if they were met with the same situation as Inglis'. "It was wrong if there was a man suffering altitude problems and was huddled under a rock, just to lift your hat, say 'good morning' and pass on by," he said.
But Sharp's mother, Linda Sharp seems to hold no grudge against Inglis and his team. She said that Inglis' team leader Russell Brice and a sherpa tried to help the Briton but everything was too late.
More of this news can be found at the Sydney Morning Herald's website at www.smh.com.au.
Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Get your kids started with rock climbing at an early age! Enroll them this summer to a week or even up to 11 weeks of indoor rock climbing camps at the Rocknasium Climbing Gym in Davis, California.
The indoor rock climbing camps are open to children ages 6 to 14, although some activities like belaying are open only to kids aged 8 years and older. By joining the rock climbing camps, they will be able to participate in and learn the following activities:
- Proper equipment use
- Development of rock climbing skills
- Belaying (ages 8 and older)
- Rope Skills
- Games
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Wire reports confirmed that Heracleo Oracion finally reached Mount Everest’s summit yesterday at 3:30 pm local time making him the first Filipino to reach the peak of the world’s tallest mountain.
The confirmation of Oracion’s success came when he radioed the expedition’s leader Arturo Valdez that, “the Philippine eagle has landed at the summit of Mount Everest.”
After Oracion, his teammate Erwin Emata reached the summit today at 5:34 am local time and became the second Filipino to reach Everest’s summit.
For their groundbreaking achievement, preparations are already being made for a hero’s welcome for the two mountaineers when they return home.
Meanwhile, the latest update from Romi Garduce is that he was already on his way to Camp 3 and is planning to reach the summit by tomorrow. Garduce is the other Filipino mountaineer who is aiming to reach Everest’s summit.
Despite the wrangling at home about the perceived “race” for the summit between Garduce and the expedition team where Oracion and Emata belongs, Garduce said that he does not consider the climb a race because, “mountaineers know when to quit or to pace themselves.”
A race or not, the three climbers and their teammates will go down in history as the pioneers just by being the first Filipinos to dare to reach the world’s tallest mountain.
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
If you believe that you have an idea that will help change climbing for the better, then don’t keep it to yourself. Submit your proposal to USA Climbing and your ideas just might turn into reality. The organi
zation is currently looking for the best proposal that will receive a grant of $1,000 for this year’s Respect the Rock Scholarship.
Only the members of USA Climbing can submit their proposal. According to the organization’s website, the proposal could be anything that will benefit the sport of climbing, from volunteering in helping teach kids in local gyms to creating websites that will link people to volunteer projects.
The scholarship was created, “to support those most committed to maintaining and benefiting the environmental and/or social needs of our sport and its many playgrounds.”
Deadline for the submission of proposals are only until June 1. So check out this link and fill out the application form now and register. For more details, you may visit USA Climbing’s website at www.usaclimbing.org.
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