Dead lucky : life after death on Mount Everest / Lincoln Hall.
By: Hall, Lincoln.
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BookPublisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2007Description: xx, 309 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781585426461 (trade); 1585426466.Subject(s): Hall, Lincoln, 1955- | Mountaineering accidents -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) | Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) | Mountaineers -- Australia -- Biography | Hall, Lincoln, 1955- | Mountaineering | Mountaineers -- BiographyDDC classification: 796.522/092 Summary: Lincoln Hall describes his experiences after deciding to pursue a long-delayed dream to climb Mt. Everest in the spring of 2006, telling how he was declared dead and left behind after he collapsed from altitude sickness and Sherpas were unable to revive him, and discussing his miraculous rescue by an American guide the following day who discovered him sitting on the summit ridge, frostbitten, confused, but still alive.
Originally published in Australia by Random House in 2007; published simultaneously in Canada.
Lincoln Hall describes his experiences after deciding to pursue a long-delayed dream to climb Mt. Everest in the spring of 2006, telling how he was declared dead and left behind after he collapsed from altitude sickness and Sherpas were unable to revive him, and discussing his miraculous rescue by an American guide the following day who discovered him sitting on the summit ridge, frostbitten, confused, but still alive.
Includes index.
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