Canadian Who Helped Fellow Mountaineer On Everest Never Hesitated

"When I saw Lincoln sitting on the ridge, I knew our trip was over," he said. "I knew what we were going to do." Brash and his team stopped when they found fellow mountaineer Lincoln Hall with no gloves and no hat, just sitting on the edge of a cliff in a thin shirt. His Sherpas left him for dead the night before, thinking he had died from brain swelling on his way down from the summit. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/06/02/brash06022006.html?print [Editors note, if you don't know the back story, you missed a good one. The first double amputee who climbed Everst a couple weeks ago? Seems he passed a man, not yet dead, but gave him up for dead a few hundred meters from the summit, and again on the way back down. The man had apparently lost his equipment and oxygen, and most of his clothes had come off. So, seeing his frostbit hands and face, they left him for dead. But the next day, the people hired to be the 'dead' man's guides, went down the mountain, came back up with a stretcher and took him down safely - DrC] http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ned=ca&q=everest+climber&ie=UTF-8

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