Wednesday 31 May 2006

Woman climber's death verified, The Australian, 31 May, 2006.

Woman climber's death verified: [1 All-round Country Edition]

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BACK-from-the-dead mountaineer Lincoln Hall celebrated an emotional reunion with his wife in Kathmandu last night as it was confirmed his friend and colleague Sue Fear had died climbing a peak in Nepal.
"For an hour and a half he tried all he could to pull Sue out but there was no success ... and there was no response from Sue at all, no sound, no movement, leaving [Bishnu] to conclude that she must have been rendered unconscious by the fall."
As Bishnu detached himself from the rope to try to arrange a better pulley system, the crevasse edge collapsed further, taking the anchor and the rope with Fear on the end of it. "Looking down all he could see was darkness and there was no response from Sue."

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