Dan Mazur SummitClimb Mount Everest Rescue of Lincoln Hall — Transcript

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1. 0:00frostbite that night alone
2. 0:03it was the worst night of the season to
3. 0:05be out
4. 0:07in the elements and that's when david
5. 0:09sharp was dying
6. 0:10the media reacted swiftly to the news
7. 0:12that david sharp was left to die
8. 0:14david sharp he ran into trouble on the
9. 0:16mountain and
10. 0:17he is passed by a number of climbers 40
11. 0:20other climbers passed by
12. 0:21mountaineer david sharp as he lay dying
13. 0:25the reason david sharp could not be
14. 0:26rescued was because it was physically
15. 0:29impossible to do so
16. 0:31[Music]
17. 0:37lincoln and his sherpas are making good
18. 0:39progress
19. 0:40they reach the notorious second step
20. 0:43shown
21. 0:44here it's a 150 foot vertical rock wall
22. 0:47the biggest obstacle of the climb
23. 0:58[Music]
24. 1:15after nine hours climbing lincoln and
25. 1:17his three sherpas
26. 1:18approached the summit i could see
27. 1:22the summit ahead there were some prayer
28. 1:24flags
29. 1:25dangling over the very steep lip of the
30. 1:28east face and that was an indicator that
31. 1:31that was the summit
32. 1:36it was obvious that we were going to
33. 1:37make it
34. 1:40[Music]
35. 1:47there's a last little steep section to
36. 1:50the summit which is just how it should
37. 1:51be i guess
38. 1:54and the one last step and i was on the
39. 1:57top
40. 1:59[Music]
41. 2:06there was no one else there it was just
42. 2:09an incredible
43. 2:10privilege i guess to have it just to
44. 2:11myself the highest person on the planet
45. 2:18[Laughter]
46. 2:21it was quite an unworldly feeling it's
47. 2:24not
48. 2:24it's not one of those you know punch the
49. 2:27air type
50. 2:28jubilation events tops of mountains
51. 2:31aren't like that you've got the whole
52. 2:33rest of the mountain it's only half time
53. 2:34you've got
54. 2:35you've got no locker room to go into you
55. 2:39[Music]
56. 2:48know
57. 2:53[Music]
58. 2:55back at base camp lincoln's old friend
59. 2:58and 1984
60. 2:59expedition member mike dillon is the
61. 3:02first to hear the news in the
62. 3:03communications tent
63. 3:05that day that lincoln got to the summit
64. 3:07really started well for us because i
65. 3:09just happened to be near the radio room
66. 3:11and i heard his voice this is lincoln
67. 3:14we're on the summit
68. 3:16we are on the summit monitoring progress
69. 3:19eight thousand feet below is expedition
70. 3:22leader
71. 3:22alex abramoff these are the actual radio
72. 3:26transmissions
73. 3:29go down go down don't forget that you
74. 3:32need
75. 3:33to go down descent is also important
76. 3:36over
77. 3:37we know that we know that and thank you
78. 3:40for making it possible for us
79. 3:42for me thanks alex
80. 3:46and he was totally lucid he was calm
81. 3:49and it was nine o'clock in the morning
82. 3:50and everything was
83. 3:52it was fantastic
84. 3:58his wife barbara receives the good news
85. 4:01the phone call came to say that
86. 4:04lincoln had summited and you know wasn't
87. 4:06it fantastic
88. 4:08but i did have this inner reservation
89. 4:11because
90. 4:12um i hadn't wanted to hear about the
91. 4:15summit
92. 4:15i just wanted to hear when i knew he was
93. 4:17down and safe
94. 4:19lincoln now has the most dangerous part
95. 4:22of the climb
96. 4:22ahead of him the descent
97. 4:25[Music]
98. 4:2722 years after his first attempt lincoln
99. 4:30hall has reached the summit of everest
100. 4:32we had a good rest on the summit we're
101. 4:34there for 20 minutes um
102. 4:36and that was really long enough because
103. 4:38i feel very uncomfortable on a you know
104. 4:41it might be a magnificent
105. 4:42place but on a high summit i feel
106. 4:44uncomfortable i know that it's a very
107. 4:45dangerous place to be i know how quickly
108. 4:47time can pass how you can be
109. 4:49mesmerized by the view so we headed down
110. 4:51the three sherpas and i
111. 5:00[Music]
112. 5:02150 feet below another member of
113. 5:05lincoln's expedition
114. 5:06thomas weber is forced to turn around
115. 5:10very close to the summit thomas had to
116. 5:11turn back because he was
117. 5:14starting to lose his balance and sort of
118. 5:17veer off
119. 5:19some of his mental functions were
120. 5:21beginning to not work properly
121. 5:23and at that point the guide decided that
122. 5:25they should head on down
123. 5:27after the adrenaline surge of summiting
124. 5:30climbers on descent
125. 5:31face a bigger battle total exhaustion
126. 5:35and the threat of running out of oxygen
127. 5:38the descent of any big mountain is
128. 5:39always
129. 5:40the most exhausting part of the climb
130. 5:45and so i wasn't surprised when i started
131. 5:47to feel
132. 5:48incredibly exhausted
133. 5:52lincoln doesn't know it but he begins to
134. 5:55suffer from high
135. 5:56altitude cerebral edema
136. 5:59low pressure is forcing fluid to leak
137. 6:02inside his brain
138. 6:03causing it to swell
139. 6:06symptoms are lethargy hallucinations
140. 6:09and irrational behavior lincoln must
141. 6:12descend
142. 6:13immediately or he will die
143. 6:36[Music]
144. 6:46can you hear me
145. 6:50and i just developed this uh incredible
146. 6:52lethargy
147. 6:53um and i didn't
148. 6:57see it as anything other than lethargy i
149. 6:59wasn't unconscious but i just lost it
150. 7:02but news of lincoln's condition is yet
151. 7:04to reach base camp
152. 7:06as the expedition leader is preoccupied
153. 7:08with another
154. 7:09unfolding tragedy this urgent radio call
155. 7:13is received from the climber's 150
156. 7:16feet below lincoln it is thomas webber's
157. 7:26[Music]
158. 7:28guide
159. 7:42foreign
160. 7:45[Music]
161. 7:52okay uh if you are sure he did
162. 7:56go down
163. 7:58[Music]
164. 8:03what apparently had happened was that
165. 8:04thomas had um
166. 8:07simply said to the guide i'm dying
167. 8:11and he died just like that
168. 8:16strange it's it's um he's had some
169. 8:19premonition
170. 8:20it's just one of these strange things
171. 8:22that happen on everest
172. 8:31geez what a tragedy
173. 8:41but the worst news was out of the blue
174. 8:43the expedition leader who was monitoring
175. 8:44the um
176. 8:45activities high on the mountain suddenly
177. 8:48told thomas sherpa
178. 8:50to go up again to help lincoln and he
179. 8:52was in trouble that lincoln was in
180. 8:54trouble
181. 8:54first time we knew about it sorry i
182. 8:57don't know how you feel
183. 8:58you or how you feel yourself
184. 9:02but now linker is very bad
185. 9:05and if it's possible send one serpa
186. 9:08up to hope lincoln
187. 9:12is near the dead also and
188. 9:16take one sharper oxygen and go down
189. 9:26thomas's sherpa pemba begins to climb
190. 9:29back
191. 9:29up the mountain to where lincoln is
192. 9:31fighting for his life
193. 9:40i was struggling but
194. 9:43the sherpas were struggling more because
195. 9:45they knew that if they didn't get me
196. 9:46down i would die that's what happens
197. 9:48with cerebral edema and i was being so
198. 9:51uncooperative
199. 9:52it would have been the worst day of
200. 9:54their lives
201. 9:59back at advanced base camp lincoln's
202. 10:02friend and fellow climber kevin ogilo
203. 10:05is manning the radio kevin came to
204. 10:07everest as part of a film crew
205. 10:09but was unable to acclimate he remained
206. 10:12at advanced base camp
207. 10:13to support the team his video diary
208. 10:16records what happens
209. 10:18next with information