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Dead Lucky : Life after Death on Mount Everest
by Hall, Lincoln
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1741664616
- ISBN 13
- 9781741664614
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Random House Australia, North Sydney, NSW, 2007. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 421 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. On the evening of 25 May 2006, I died on Mount Everest... After five weeks at base camp in Tibet, he began his push for the summit of Mt Everest. 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. His reported death and his miraculous resurrection are stuff of legend.This book is Lincoln Hall's own account of climbing Everest during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Australia; 2000-2010; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781741664614. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8403. . 9781741664614
Synopsis
You may recall the riveting Emmy-nominated Dateline documentary about Lincoln Hall, the 50-year-old veteran mountain climber who miraculously survived a night out in the open without oxygen in Mt. Everest's “death zone” after being left for dead by members of his expedition. Hall's survival made headlines around the world, but aside from an exclusive interview with Dateline and the Today Show, Hall has remained quiet about his experience. Now, for the first time, Lincoln shares his own account of what happened during those twilight hours in the “death zone” and the events that preceded and followed that fateful night in DEAD LUCKY: Life After Death on Mount Everest. Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006 he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And Hall, in fact, was pronounced dead, after collapsing from cerebral oedema (also known as “altitude sickness”) shortly after reaching the summit. Two sherpas spent hours trying to revive him but, as darkness fell, the expedition's leader ordered via radio that the sherpas should descend in order to save themselves. Hall was pronounced dead and the news of his death traveled rapidly from mountaineering websites to news media around the world, and ultimately to Hall's wife and two sons back in Australia. Early the next morning, an American guide climbing with two clients and a Sherpa was startled to find Hall sitting cross-legged on a sharp crest of the summit ridge just staring at them. Not only is Hall's story amazing, his writing is too. A bestseller in Australia, Dead Lucky has been called “gripping” (The Sun Herald), “compelling” (The Sunday Telegraph), “vivid…incredible, educational, spiritual, and entertaining” (Independent Weekly), and “inspirational” (Outdoor Australia Magazine). As a sign of its caliber, the Australian edition of Dead Lucky was awarded a Special Jury Mention at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in November 07.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8403
- Title
- Dead Lucky : Life after Death on Mount Everest
- Author
- Hall, Lincoln
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1741664616
- ISBN 13
- 9781741664614
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Place of Publication
- North Sydney, NSW
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- BZDB137 memoir, biography, climbing, mount everest, death, sherpas, australian, survival Mountaineering; Australia; 2000-2010; Biography & Autobiography. EAN: 9781741664614 Hall, Lincoln Dead Lucky : Life after Death on Mount Everest
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