I have one of his books, a book about the 100 greatest athletes of all time. I will just say he believed Jim Brown was the greatest athlete of all time.
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Mountaineer Lincoln Hall, 56, who somehow survived a terrifying ordeal on Everest--he was left for dead--unfortunately succumbed to mesothelioma.
Mr. Hall spent 20 minutes at the summit, but shortly after he began his descent he was struck by a severe form of high altitude sickness, cerebral edema: a swelling of the brain that induces crippling lethargy, hallucinations and other symptoms. Maddened, by his account, he turned and tried to reclimb the summit, but the sherpas who had accompanied him tied him and began wrestling him down the mountain. After two hours, Mr. Hall was showing no signs of life, and the exhausted sherpas, in touch by radio with the expedition leader, were told to save themselves._____
“Before you go down, please cover him with rocks,” they were told, Mr. Hall later said. “Fortunately, at that particular spot there were no rocks.”
His death was announced, and his family was informed by telephone. It was about 12 hours later, at dawn on May 26, that a group of ascending climbers, who had been told to expect to find Mr. Hall’s body, came upon him sitting up, his jacket unzipped, frostbitten and very weak but miraculously still alive.
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