Mt. Everest Ethics Questioned After “Dead” And Abandoned Climber Survives...

New York Times ALAN COWELL May 27, 2006 at 11:01 PM

It has been a lethal and quirky climbing season on Mount Everest, with at least 15 deaths recorded so far.

But no episode seemed quite so strange as the story of Lincoln Hall, a 50-year-old Australian climber, who was a 16th. But only for a while.

His tale, which emerged here on Saturday, offered an inspiring counterpoint to the grim end of a British solo climber, David Sharp, 34, who was left to die on May 15 as some 40 other climbers passed him on their own attempts to reach the 29,035-foot peak.

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