The story of Lincoln Hall's miraculous rescue on Mount Everest in 2006 - including an interview with the first person to encounter him the next day, Dan Mazur - provides a compelling case study in high-altitude mountaineering ethics, survival against extreme odds, and the complex decision-making required in life-or-death situations. This resource examines the key events and ethical considerations surrounding Hall's near-death experience and rescue.
TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Ethics in Mountaineering & Intro to Lincoln Hall story
1:50 - May 25, 2006, Hall summits then falls from HACE, and is abandoned
3:19 - Lincoln Hall - his background
4:32 - Hall is discovered by team the following morning & successive events
5:37 - David Sharp, Thomas Weber deaths
6:20 - Interview with Dan Mazur, first person to see Lincoln Hall on following morning
10:10 - Hall hallucinates and Mazur says he had been stripped of all his equipment
12:53 - Mazur contacts Lincoln Hall’s expedition leader and informs him that his client is still alive
14:39 - Sherpa team arrives to help Hall
15:54 - Mazur and team give up summit aspirations
17:42 - Lincoln Hall’s wife called to be informed that her husband had died, then learns he survived
18:56 - Ethical considerations of high altitude mountaineering, and example of a high altitude rescue
20:23 - Factors critical to Hall’s survival
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RESOURCES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
Everest Mystery: The Terrifying Last Moments of David Sharp on Everest
https://youtu.be/qGKDFjXLAf4
Ethics at Altitude: Lincoln Hall, Greg Child, James Tabor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUO6QvfrKI&t=1663s
Rescue of Lincoln Hall from Everest Tibet: NBC Television Program
https://www.summitclimb.com/news/mef/lincoln-hall-rescue
Lincoln Hall Obituary, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/world/asia/lincoln-hall-australian-mountaineer-dies-at-56.html
Miracle on Everest · The Lincoln Hall Story | Directed by Jennifer Peedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_RzNhxi-s8&t=2594s
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