8:00 p.m.

Lincoln Hall — Dead Lucky

Lincoln Hall is one of Australia’s best-known mountaineers. Hall’s eighth book, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, is his personal account of his climb of Everest and of a tragic season on the mountain.

9:00 p.m.

Announcement of the 2007 John Lauchlan Memorial Award

9:05 p.m.

Break

9:25 p.m.

Remnants of Everest

USA, 2007, 105 minutes
Directed by David Breashears
Produced by Callie Taintor Wiser

The Everest tragedy of 1996 resonated far beyond the climbing community. Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, the IMAX Everest film, and countless other accounts have presented differing views of the deadly storm during which eight lives were lost. With Remnants of Everest, director David Breashears takes us back into the heart of Everest’s deadliest storm, recreating its chaos and violence, and through the spellbinding accounts of the storm’s survivors, recounts this powerful human tragedy.  » More