Australian Mountaineer Lincoln Hall Dies at 56 — Transcript

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1. 0:02Lincoln Hall one of Australia's most
2. 0:04eminent Mountaineers passed away on
3. 0:06Tuesday the climber suffered from an
4. 0:08extremely rare and aggressive
5. 0:10asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma in
6. 0:141984 Hall was a part of the first
7. 0:16Australian team to climb Mount Everest
8. 0:18although he was unable to summit the
9. 0:20peak due to altitude sickness but in
10. 0:232006 he tried again World News Australia
11. 0:26reports it was his second attempt in
12. 0:282006 which made international headlines
13. 0:31this time he made it but on the way down
14. 0:34Lincoln Hall was again hit by altitude
15. 0:36sickness his team left him there
16. 0:39according to Sydney Morning Herald he
17. 0:41was left for dead on the mountain at
18. 0:438700 meters when he broke down while
19. 0:45descending from the 8,848 metres summit
20. 0:49those with him could not move him after
21. 0:52he became delirious a sign of edema or
22. 0:54fluid on the brain the world-renowned
23. 0:56climber had a career that spanned 30
24. 0:59years and included expeditions across
25. 1:01the Himalayas Andes and Antarctica
26. 1:04according to Australia's channel 7 news
27. 1:06mr. Hall died peacefully at Sydney's
28. 1:08Royal Prince Alfred hospital on Tuesday
29. 1:11after a year-long battle with
30. 1:13mesothelioma the climber and author was
31. 1:15diagnosed with the rare cancer last year
32. 1:17the result of being exposed to asbestos
33. 1:20while building cubby houses as a child
34. 1:22Paul is survived by his wife Barbara
35. 1:24Scanlon and two sons