Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest / Lincoln Hall.
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TextPublication details: Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2008Description: xvi, 408 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 20 cmISBN: 9781741667363 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Hall, Lincoln, 1955- -- Travel -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) | Mountaineers -- Australia -- Biography | Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) | Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 796.522092 Summary: CLIMBING & MOUNTAINEERING. AUSTRALIAN. Lincoln Hall set off for Everest in early May 2006. Five weeks after reaching Base Camp in Tibet, he began his push for the summit. Then things began to go horribly wrong. Hall was struck by cerebral oedema - high altitude sickness - in the aptly named 'death zone'. Drowsiness quickly became overpowering lethargy, and he collapsed in the snow. Two Sherpas spent hours trying to revive him, but as darkness fell he was pronounced dead. The expedition's leader ordered the Sherpas to descend to save themselves. The news of Hall's death travelled rapidly from mountaineering websites to news media around the world, and by satellite phone to Hall's family in Australia. Early the next day, Dan Mazur, an American mountaineering guide with two clients and a Sherpa, was startled to find Hall sitting cross-legged on the knife-edged crest of the summit ridge. Hall's first words - 'I imagine you are surprised to see me here' - were a massive understatement.
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CLIMBING & MOUNTAINEERING. AUSTRALIAN. Lincoln Hall set off for Everest in early May 2006. Five weeks after reaching Base Camp in Tibet, he began his push for the summit. Then things began to go horribly wrong. Hall was struck by cerebral oedema - high altitude sickness - in the aptly named 'death zone'. Drowsiness quickly became overpowering lethargy, and he collapsed in the snow. Two Sherpas spent hours trying to revive him, but as darkness fell he was pronounced dead. The expedition's leader ordered the Sherpas to descend to save themselves. The news of Hall's death travelled rapidly from mountaineering websites to news media around the world, and by satellite phone to Hall's family in Australia. Early the next day, Dan Mazur, an American mountaineering guide with two clients and a Sherpa, was startled to find Hall sitting cross-legged on the knife-edged crest of the summit ridge. Hall's first words - 'I imagine you are surprised to see me here' - were a massive understatement.
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