Bigger mountain to climb for Hall

Four months after his near-death ordeal on Mount Everest, Lincoln Hall still has bandages on six of his fingers and remains exhausted.

Hall, 50, was declared dead on May 25 after becoming disoriented from the effects of cerebral oedema on his way down from the summit of the world's highest mountain. He was discovered alive the next day, delirious and badly affected by frostbite.

The mountaineer was at an awards ceremony in Sydney, where he overcame a paralysed vocal cord, frozen on the mountain, to speak.