Dead Lucky. Life After Death On Mount Everest

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Random House Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 421 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. After Getting To The Summit, Hall Started The Descent Only To Be Struck By Cerebral Oedema. Eventually Pronounced Dead,he Was Later Found Next Day By An American Mountaineering Group.

Publishers Description: AWARDED SPECIAL JURY MENTION AT THE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM AND BOOK FESTIVAL 2007 Foreword by Lachlan Murdoch The day I summitted Mount Everest was the day I died 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. After three days of climbing higher into the oxygenless air, he was blessed with a perfect summit day. For a few minutes, Hall was the highest man on the planet. His Sherpa companions arrived, photos were taken, and the climbers commenced their long descent. Then things began to go horribly wrong. Hall was struck by cerebral oedema - highaltitude 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 star show less

ISBN: 9781741664614