Dead Lucky
TITLE: Lincoln Hall: Dead Lucky
SPEAKER: Lincoln Hall, Mountain Climber; Author, Dead Lucky
DATE: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
TIME: 6 p.m., Check-In | 6:30 p.m., Program | 7:30 p.m. wine and hors d'oeuvres reception
PLACE: 595 Market, 2nd Floor, Outside Montgomery BART Station
PRICE: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (w/ valid ID)
Reservations (415) 597-6705 or register at
www.commonwealthclub.org Dead Lucky is the amazing story of Australian mountain climber Lincoln Hall’s rescue 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. And Hall, in fact, was pronounced dead, after collapsing from altitude sickness. 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’s story is inspiring on many levels.
Labels: climbing, event