Mountaineering News May 2006

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WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
	Aussie Mountaineer Lincoln Hall Is Alive
	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 Read Full Story
FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2006
	Hillary Denounces Inglis' Climbing Team
	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. Hillary 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 Read Full Story
THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
	US Gov't Issues Report on Global Warming
	Bad news for winter sports enthusiasts and mountaineers. The United States' Department of Energy (DOE) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently published the findings of their research, which according to the authors call, "an unprecedented picture of climate change." The research conducted by Steven J. Ghan and Timothy Shippert of the PNNL made full-century forecast Read Full Story
TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2006
	Get Your Kids Into Climbing!
	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 w Read Full Story
MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
	Swedish Skier & Climber Olsson's Body Found
	Swedish mountaineer and skier Tomas Olsson’s body was finally discovered some 6,700 meters on Mount Everest last May 20 at 9:30 pm Beijing time, according to various reports. Olsson completed the ascent to the summit with his teammate Norwegian Tormod Granheim last May 16. From the summit, Olsson and Granheim were planning to ski down the world’s tallest mountain. But at about 8,500 mete Read Full Story