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Greg Mortimer is in hospital in Iceland 25-Aug-2010 At 10:30:54 PM freepete
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Hope this turns out OK

From Dagbladet Politiken:(http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article1038403.ece)

Wilderness adventurer and mountaineer Greg Mortimer, who was the first Australian to reach the top of Mount Everest and K2 in the Himalayas, had a serious fall last weekend when climbing a mountain in Ø Fjord some 200 km west of Ittoqqortoomiit on the east coast of Greenland.

Precise details of the accident remain unclear but Mortimer was flown by air ambulance to Iceland and admitted to hospital in Reykjavik where he is believed to have liver injuries.

No rescue equipment
The accident happened last Saturday, the day after the experienced mountaineer had received assistance from Denmark’s Ejnar Mikkelsen inspection vessel . Mortimer was on a climbing holiday with his son Oliver and two fellow-Australians.

Mortimer’s Zodiac rubber boat had broken down, and the Australian group was stuck in the fjord. Ejnar Mikkelsen engineers repaired the engine, but at the same time claim to have noticed that the Australians had no sea rescue or life jacket equipment with them for the 200 kilometre trip through the world’s largest and most deserted system of fjords.

The authorities in Ittoqqortoomiit were alerted about Mortimer’s accident in a satellite telephone call and dispatched a helicopter, which evacuated the Australian to the Konstabelpynt runway. From there the injured mountaineer was flown to Reykjavik by air ambulance.

Earlier, during the rubber boat repair incident, politiken.dk’s reporter was ashore with the engineers and spoke to both Greg Mortimer and his 24-year old son Oliver.

“My mother is not happy with this project, but in my view there are more dangerous things you can do in life. And here, at least, you don’t hang out with the wrong people,” Oliver Mortimer said.

Greg Mortimer said: “I have climbed many places, but there is something special about doing it here in Greenland. Nature is fabulously beautiful and wild – and everything is untouched.”

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