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Life After Death on Mount Everest
Tarcher
May 2008
On Sale: May 15, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 1585426466
EAN: 9781585426461
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The amazing story of Australian mountain climber Lincoln
Hall’s rescue following a night spent near the summit of
Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other
members of his expedition. Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25,
2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, he attempted to climb the
mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people
perished. And Hall, in fact, was pronounced dead, after
collapsing from altitude sickness. Two Sherpas spent hours
trying to revive him, but, as darkness fell, word came via
radio from the exhibition’s leader that the Sherpas should
descend the mountain in order to save themselves. The news of Lincoln Hall’s death traveled rapidly from
mountaineering websites to news media around the world, and
ultimately to his family back in Australia. Early the next
morning, however, an American guide, climbing with two
clients and a Sherpa, was startled to find Hall, sitting
cross-legged on the summit ridge, just staring at them. As featured in the Emmy-nominated Dateline NBC documentary
“Miracle on Mount Everest,” Dead Lucky is Lincoln Hall’s
account of this miraculous night atop Everest and the days
and nights that led up to and followed this fascinating
expedition. Hall had been part of Australia’s first attempt
to climb to the top of the mountain in 1984, but, he had not
done any serious climbing for many years, having set aside
his passion in order to support his family. Hall was forced
to turn back due to illness in 1984 so his triumph in
reaching the summit at the age of fifty is a story unto
itself. Not since Into Thin Air has there been such a
thrilling Everest story. Dead Lucky is a page-turner from
beginning to end.
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