A climber whose family was told he died while scaling Mount Everest was miraculously found alive by sherpas.
Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, has long fascinated explorers, but actually hiking to the summit is no easy feat.
TikTok has recently been flooded with people interested in learning about the "death zone", where climbers often vanish and perish.
Back in May 2006, Lincoln Hall almost became one of the adventurers that never made it back from Everest, after being left for dead by his fellow climbers.
After attempting to revive him for several hours, the other climbers Hall was with had stripped his body of necessary equipment before leaving him exposed on a narrow ridge, 28,000 feet up Everest, believing there was no more they could do for him.
The following morning, on May 26, his family was notified that the 50-year-old had tragically died during the climb.
However, their grief was premature as Hall was very much still alive - and was found Dan Mazur, then 45, who was climbing the mountain with a Sherpa guide and two other climbers.
Hall, who is from Australia, was found without a hat or gloves and with his insulated suit unzipped.
Mazur told People at the time: "We came upon him suddenly. He was just sitting there on the brow of a ridge, with a cliff on one side that had a drop of about 8,000 feet.
"He's got his arms out of his down suit, wearing just a thin fleece top. He's got no hat, no gloves and no goggles. There's no oxygen. He's got no equipment and he was just sitting there gaping."
Mazur added: "He was 'dead,' so the people he was with apparently took all his stuff. He'd had three Sherpas, and I heard they were like poking fingers in his eyes and he wasn't moving. They figured he was dead. Maybe he was almost dead.
"A couple of people later told me they did everything they could. Anyway, he said, 'You must be surprised to see me here.' I said, 'Yeah, buddy, I'm really surprised to see you.'"
While their chance encounter ended up meaning Mazur and his team's plan had to change, he said he and his guides "didn't have a second's hesitation about stopping. How could you just walk past someone like that?"
He added: "He's sitting up, holding his hands up, talking to us. If you walk past someone like that, you're going to hell, dude, you're going to hell!"
Mazur tried to get Hall to zip his coat back up and put on his gloves and hat, but said he kept taking them off.
He described the horrifying injuries Hall had suffered, explaining: "His fingers looked like candles. Frozen down to halfway. All waxy, yellow. It's like minus 20 or minus 30. But there was no wind.
"I'm like, 'Hold out your hand, dude. Is this your glove? Let's get that glove on, man. Okay, where's your hat? Let's put your hat on. Zip up your coat.' He was like a three-year-old."
Hall was beginning to hallucinate from the oxygen deprivation to his brain, and thought he and Mazur were on a boat ride with the sherpas after having his harness clipped on to one of their snow stakes.
He was given a Snickers bar, water, and some oxygen from a spare tank the group had and only then began to become more lucid and mobile.
Hall's base camp was identified thanks to a logo on his jacket and they contacted his group to let them know that Hall was still alive.
Mazur and his group were forced to abandon their climb to the summit after their climb was interrupted by the rescue, but he says that the experience left him "humbled" nonetheless.
Mazur explained: "The four hours we had lost made it risky to go on. Storms come in the afternoon, and we had used a good deal of oxygen just sitting there.
"But I'm humbled, very humbled, by the whole thing. I feel respect for the mountain and for the situation. Sometimes you feel about an inch big. Just tiny. Like you are just a little pea."
Thanks to Mazur and the sherpas' assistance, Hall made it back alive and was treated for frost bite and brain swelling caused by altitude sickness, and ended up making a full recovery barring losing his fingertips from exposure to the cold.
Hall ended up dying six years later from cancer after developing mesothelioma from being exposed to asbestos decades earlier while helping his father build two cubby houses when he was a child.