Brit Involved in Dramatic Everest Rescue

It has emerged that one of the climbers involved in a dramatic high altitude rescue on Everest was a Brit.

Myles Osborne from Fareham, near Portsmouth was climbing with American guide Dan Mazur when they came across Australian Lincoln Hall approximately three hours below the summit.

Hall was clearly in a bad way having been left out on the mountain and Osborne and Mazure abandoned their summit attempt to organise a rescue for the 50-year-old climber.

Quoted on the Portsmouth Today web site, Osborne says: 'a man's life has to be worth more than a picture at the top of a mountain.'

Hall was eventually helped down the mountain by a team of Sherpas from his own expedition after Mazur and Osborne contacted them by radio and confirmed that Hall was still alive. The pair accompanied the rescue party back down the mountain.

The successful rescue at an altitude where it's often said that nothing can be done for stricken climbers contrasts dramtically with the case of a British climber apparently left to die on the mountain by around 42 mountaineers.

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