I think the one who might want to be last, is the one who realized that both his wife and his mistress were up there, when this story first broke, and contact with the miners was made.
Some ‘splaining awaits him!!
I’d first send up anyone in ill health or has special medical needs then bring the rest up oldest to youngest on the assumption that the younger should be in the best health.
I was in a Gold mine in South Africa and down 12,500 feet checking some of equipment, we made rise drills. Walking back out the was a great rumble and the engineers I was with hit the deck. There had been a rock explosion(its when rock is under tremendous pressure and blows out the walls of a tunnel) a couple of layers above which killed a bunch and injured another 30.
The used the main lift to take care of the dead and injured so we waited 6 hours or so and went up the man lift. It was a tube similar to the one they are using and had two levels. That 2 mile haul to the surface took 2.5 hurs, and the cage banged against the sides all the way up. Also it was around 120 degrees temp.
I have a sense of what they will go through
Anyone who is still larger than 26 inches across waits until the end...