Mount Everest climber arrives at base camp.

Mount Everest climber arrives at base camp. :

"He was reported to be dead and was abandoned by his fellow climbers, who were also beginning to become unwell.

However, the following day he was found alive by an American climber.

He is now being treated at base camp for frostbite and brain swelling."

Well, thank heaven's for the American climber. I hope Lincoln Hall will be all right now. There has been a lot of discussion about whether you should save people or not when you are climbing peaks like Mount Everest. In my discussions with people who know more about these things than I it seems to come down to 3 things. Firstly the conditions. In some conditions you simply cannot manage sick people and survive yourself. Secondly, every climber who climbs these sorts of peaks knows the risks and knows that they may have to be abandoned. Thirdly it relies on your own level of preparedness and fitness. Like swimming some people can only swim themselves. Others can swim and save someone else at the same time. I do not think mountain climbers are cold hearted and cruel. I think they have cruel and cold hearted conditions and that is the difference. I am not prepared to say it's right or wrong when I couldn't even climb any distance up a mountain. The people who know have to debate this issue and then perhaps there will be solutions to the problems since we have made some good technological advances. The debate is essential to the saving of lives because then all the options will be considered.