Monday, May 28, 2007

Climber recounts rescue

Grateful climber recounts Everest rescue (AP)

Woman climber Usha Bista, 22, talks to the Associated Press after receiving treatment at the Mountain Medicine Center in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 27, 2007. Bista, who was rescued from Mount Everest's 'death zone' by fellow mountaineers, said Sunday she was abandoned by her teammates at high altitude and left by her guide when she fell sick. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)AP - A Nepalese woman who escaped Mount Everest's "death zone" with little more than frostbite said Sunday her rescuers saved her life after finding her sick and unconscious on the world's highest mountain.


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