SummitClimb Dan Mazur _ SummitClimb Mount Everest Rescue of Lincoln Hall-1 — Transcript

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1. 0:00film crew but was unable to acclimate he
2. 0:03remained at Advanced base camp to
3. 0:05support the team his video diary records
4. 0:08what happens
5. 0:10next with information from the shus
6. 0:12Lincoln is I suppose best described
7. 0:16as as crazy this altitude crazy I've
8. 0:20just heard that the shers are trying to
9. 0:22literally kick him to move but he's he's
10. 0:26just gone
11. 0:28mad the sherper have no choice but to
12. 0:31try and manhandle Lincoln down to Safety
13. 0:35in the communications tent Lincoln's
14. 0:37teammate Richard Harris tries to make
15. 0:40him Focus Lincoln Lincoln this is
16. 0:42Richard Barbara's waiting for you de and
17. 0:45dors you're waiting for you you need to
18. 0:47come down
19. 0:51now hemba Thomas Weber's Sherpa arrives
20. 0:55to help with Lincoln's rescue I'd have
21. 0:58some moments of lucidity
22. 1:01yes what are you doing
23. 1:03here he said Thomas Thomas has
24. 1:07died and that was just uh this a huge
25. 1:11shock just seemed so
26. 1:13inconceivable since he seemed to have
27. 1:14been going so well and that's then I
28. 1:18shut down
29. 1:23again cerebral edema is toying with
30. 1:27Lincoln's
31. 1:28mind
32. 1:34I thought I was in Queensland a really
33. 1:36severe case of wishful thinking you know
34. 1:38I actually felt quite safe and quite
35. 1:41happy just to be
36. 1:42[Music]
37. 1:44there and then I heard an Australian
38. 1:47voice speaking English Lincoln I think
39. 1:51that your mind is playing tricks with
40. 1:53you and you are trying to fight the
41. 1:56shers they're trying to help you down
42. 1:59please help them help yourself for your
43. 2:02family's sake at our
44. 2:04sake I suddenly took the instruction to
45. 2:07continue
46. 2:08absil in his delusional State Lincoln
47. 2:11has to absil down the treacherous Second
48. 2:14Step all the sherpers can do is watch
49. 2:22helplessly in Australia Lincoln Hall's
50. 2:25wife Barbara Waits anxiously for news
51. 2:28from Everest
52. 2:31[Music]
53. 2:34then comes the worrying news that
54. 2:36Lincoln is still near the summit I
55. 2:39immediately felt really sick and full of
56. 2:42dread because he would have been up near
57. 2:45the summit for probably 6 or 7 hours and
58. 2:51I couldn't imagine what difficulty he
59. 2:53was having at 28,000 ft Lincoln's
60. 2:57difficulty is the Second Step this
61. 2:59footage shows the 150 ft vertical rock
62. 3:02face in his disoriented State it's
63. 3:05proving extremely dangerous my mind was
64. 3:08saying absil but my body couldn't handle
65. 3:10it I whed down the ropes pretty well out
66. 3:12of
67. 3:15control what happened was I swung across
68. 3:17and and and slammed into
69. 3:20Pima to try and stop the uh me hurting
70. 3:25him so much I sort of uh thought well
71. 3:27I'll I'll use my uh the spring of my my
72. 3:29leg to slow down the impact but
73. 3:31unfortunately I had these spiky things
74. 3:33called crampons on the end of my boots
75. 3:35which are really sharp I mean the design
76. 3:37so your feet don't slip on Ice well they
77. 3:39certainly didn't slip on pima's thigh
78. 3:47[Music]
79. 3:49either at the time I hadn't realized i'
80. 3:52i' I'd hit him with the crampons and
81. 3:53that I'd actually wounded his leg quite
82. 3:55badly and we're like two spiders with a
83. 3:58hanging beneath this cliff on our ABS
84. 4:06RS Amber is badly hurt but he and the
85. 4:09other three sherpers simply refuse to
86. 4:12give up on Lincoln people say that the
87. 4:14sherpers should have left me when I was
88. 4:18being really difficult but the sheers
89. 4:20just don't think like that what they
90. 4:23were engaged in doing was getting me
91. 4:24down the mountain and that's what they
92. 4:26were going to do the sherp has really
93. 4:28struggled to get me as far as they could
94. 4:31but eventually they had to
95. 4:33[Music]
96. 4:35stop in an extraordinary feet of
97. 4:38endurance the sherpers have dragged
98. 4:40Lincoln as far as they can but at 28,000
99. 4:43ft they are still in the death zone
100. 4:46running out of oxygen here means almost
101. 4:49certain death when laka DOI dawa and
102. 4:53Pema finally got me to the point where I
103. 4:55spent a night they could do nothing else
104. 4:58we had a n 18 hour day there and it
105. 5:01wasn't 9 hours of descent I mean it was
106. 5:049 hours of struggle and so it was an
107. 5:06extraordinary hard thing for them
108. 5:08physically we'd all run out of oxygen
109. 5:11dehydrated we were all close to death
110. 5:14but Lincoln faces yet another threat the
111. 5:18bitter
112. 5:19cold frostbite is the result of the
113. 5:22body's attempt to preserve its core
114. 5:24temperature blood vessels near the skin
115. 5:27begin to constrict forcing blood to the
116. 5:29the essential organs without warmth the
117. 5:32cells in the extremities begin to
118. 5:36freeze down at Advanced base camp Kevin
119. 5:40orelo is realizing that time is running
120. 5:43out decision at some point has got to be
121. 5:46made to leave him to die yeah but could
122. 5:49could you your best friend no
123. 5:51F yeah but the decision has got to be
124. 5:53made by by by the sherpers and
125. 5:56[Applause]
126. 5:58Alex they
127. 6:00can't they're on a knife edge Ridge that
128. 6:02only one person can walk
129. 6:05by you can't if he doesn't want to move
130. 6:08because he's just become completely
131. 6:10Delirious what can I do and at what
132. 6:13point do you decide them because
133. 6:14otherwise you're going to have you're
134. 6:15going to have one dead climber plus
135. 6:18three dead sherpers
136. 6:20[Applause]
137. 6:28here
138. 6:31it's at this point that Lincoln slips
139. 6:33into a coma due to cerebral
140. 6:36edema his brain is shutting down and his
141. 6:40respiration becomes barely
142. 6:46perceptible from what I understand they
143. 6:49were monitoring my you know Vital Signs
144. 6:52my breathing was getting less and less
145. 6:54frequent and more and more shallow they
146. 6:56couldn't find a pulse one of them poked
147. 6:58me in the eye to which I didn't respond
148. 7:00at
149. 7:00[Music]
150. 7:02all at 5:20 p.m. the sherpers declare
151. 7:06him
152. 7:11dead the decision has has to be
153. 7:14made to save sher's
154. 7:18lives and that's to leave
155. 7:20[Applause]
156. 7:22Lincoln sherpers have been working at
157. 7:26over 8,000 M now for over 24 hours
158. 7:30and although the Sher people are very
159. 7:32strong and very tough and very kind and
160. 7:36loyal there only so much they can do
161. 7:38before their own lives been put at
162. 7:40risk the sherpers stay with Lincoln for
163. 7:43another 2 hours until finally Expedition
164. 7:46leader Alex abramov orders them
165. 7:49down they take Lincoln's belongings and
166. 7:52he's left alone without oxygen water or
167. 7:58shelter
168. 8:04[Music]
169. 8:08nobody has ever been left for dead this
170. 8:10high and
171. 8:13[Music]
172. 8:18survived I
173. 8:21was meditating by the fire and somehow I
174. 8:26felt Lincoln's arms around
175. 8:30me and I didn't like the feeling of that
176. 8:34at
177. 8:36all my next step of course was to have
178. 8:38to pH uh Barbara his wife and that's we
179. 8:42just knew what a tragedy we were just a
180. 8:44small part of his life but to to have to
181. 8:46suddenly make the phone call to
182. 8:48say that um you know he he died to his
183. 8:52to his family that was that was
184. 8:57terrible another phone call came came
185. 8:59through from base camp and I just knew
186. 9:03instantly that it was the worst news
187. 9:05possible and I didn't want to to hear it
188. 9:09and I didn't want to continue the
189. 9:11conversation but I had to be told Mom
190. 9:14called us out there and it was it had
191. 9:17been Mar could called
192. 9:20um
193. 9:22and um she sat us down on the couch
194. 9:26and said
195. 9:28um
196. 9:30boys um about 20 minutes ago your dad
197. 9:33passed
198. 9:35away well everything just seemed to go
199. 9:38blank and we just sat there together in
200. 9:42a
201. 9:43huddle holding hands and hugging and
202. 9:46crying
203. 9:49and we didn't know what to
204. 9:53[Music]
205. 9:58do
206. 10:01alone the highest person on Earth
207. 10:05Lincoln Hall has been declared
208. 10:10dead but something unexpected happens
209. 10:13that night the weather begins to change
210. 10:16a blanket of cloud covers Lincoln
211. 10:19preventing the temperature from dropping
212. 10:21below minus
213. 10:2325° I mean it's very hard to know
214. 10:25exactly what
215. 10:26happened or resurfaced some now and I
216. 10:30actually woke
217. 10:31up and I realized where I
218. 10:33[Music]
219. 10:36was Lincoln's luck begins to change
220. 10:39whatever way you look at it it was a
221. 10:41very strange set of
222. 10:43circumstances