An Australian climber left for dead spent a night on Mt. Everest and lived to tell about it. Lincoln Hall, 50 was left by an expedition team after he was reported dead from head trauma, according to reports. But another team found him the next day near the peak with frost bite and altitude sickness.

The 80-year-old spiritual keeper of Indonesia's erupting Mount Merapi walked around villages in a bid to calm the erupting mountain on Thursday night. After experts warned the Merapi eruptions could get worse, Maridjan, the spiritual keeper, performed several rites to prevent the mountain from further eruption. "When I listen to Merapi, I don't hear any danger. Merapi will not hurt the residents, but the residents must look after the mountain and not take everything they want greedily," he told reporters.

Jacob Cherian - All Headline News ContributorMount Merapi, Indonesia (AHN)-- An 80-year-old Maridjan is staying on the slopes of Indonesia's most dangerous volcano.

A wildlife officer shot and killed a female mountain lion after she attacked a 7-year-old boy hiking with his family. The 80-pound cat bit the boy's head, causing puncture wounds and scrapes on his legs, which likely came from the animal's claws.

Three Singaporeans on a mission to find a karate legend are found huddled together inside an abandoned car on a north Japanese mountainside. Local media reports say one of the boys told Hirosaki police his dying father had told his group to search for the master. Thirteen people set out from Singapore but one group was lost on the slopes of Mount Iwaki.