August 10, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Egg beaters have their worth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4139002.stm
The fellows website:
http://www.humar.com/en/index.php
Lots of pictures plus some footage of the rescue from 20,000ft up taken through a very long lens.
He was underslung freight the whole way down. Must have taken some doing at that height, a great feat of airmanship and one very lucky climber.
(Note for those on 56k, the rescue video file is 19mb)