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Rob Hall (Robert Edwin Hall) was born on 14 January, 1961 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a New Zealand mountaineer (1961–1996). Discover Rob Hall's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 35 years old?

Popular As Robert Edwin Hall
Occupation Mountain guide
Age 35 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January 1961
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace Christchurch, New Zealand
Date of death 11 May, 1996
Died Place Mount Everest, Nepal
Nationality New Zealand

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1961

Robert Edwin Hall (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer.

1989

In 1989, Rob Hall met Gary Ball, who became his climbing partner and close friend.

As with most other mountain climbers, Hall and Gary Ball sought corporate sponsorships to fund their expeditions.

The partners decided to climb the Seven Summits, but upped the ante by ascending to the summits of all seven in seven months.

1990

Hall met his future wife, physician Jan Arnold, during his Everest summit attempt in 1990.

Hall and Arnold climbed Denali for their first date and later married.

They started with Everest in May, and climbed the last mountain, Antarctica's Vinson Massif, on 12 December 1990, hours before the deadline.

After this success they realised that to retain their sponsorships, each successive climb would have to be ever riskier and more spectacular, increasing the chances of an accident.

Hall and Ball therefore decided to quit professional climbing and form a high-altitude guiding business.

1992

Their company, Adventure Consultants, was incorporated in 1992 and quickly became a premier expedition guiding company.

That year they guided six clients to the top of Everest.

1993

In 1993, Hall and Arnold climbed to the summit of Everest together.

In October 1993, Gary Ball died of pulmonary edema on a Himalayan mountain, leaving Hall to run Adventure Consultants on his own.

1994

In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hall was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to mountaineering.

1996

He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, and two clients died.

In the catastrophic 1996 season, Arnold would have accompanied Hall on his Everest expedition, but she was pregnant.

Hall grew up in New Zealand where he climbed extensively in the Southern Alps.

By 1996, Hall had guided thirty-nine climbers up to the top of Everest.

Although the price of a guided summit attempt – US$65,000 – was considerably higher than that of other expeditions, Hall's reputation for reliability and safety attracted clients from all over the world.

Rob Hall was well known in the mountaineering world as the "mountain goat" or the "show".

Adventure Consultants' 1996 Everest expedition consisted of eight clients and three guides (Hall, Mike Groom, and Andy Harris).

Among the clients was Jon Krakauer, a journalist on assignment from Outside magazine.

Hall had brokered a deal with Outside; he would guide one of their writers to the summit in exchange for advertising space and a story about the growing popularity of commercial expeditions to Everest.

Shortly after midnight on 10 May 1996, the Adventure Consultants expedition began a summit attempt from Camp IV, atop the South Col.

They were joined by climbers from Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness company, as well as expeditions sponsored by the governments of Taiwan and India.

The expeditions quickly encountered delays.

Upon reaching the Hillary Step, the climbers discovered that no fixed line had been placed, and they were forced to wait for an hour while the guides installed the ropes (Rob nonetheless "fixed most of the mountain in 1996").

Since some 33 climbers were attempting to reach the summit on the same day, and Hall and Fischer had asked their climbers to stay within 150 m of each other, there were bottlenecks at the single fixed line at the Hillary Step.

Many of the climbers had not yet reached the summit by 2:00 pm, the last safe time to turn around to reach Camp IV before nightfall.

Hall's Sardar, Ang Dorje Sherpa, and other climbing Sherpas waited at the summit for the clients.

Near 3:00 pm, they began their descent.

On the way down, Ang Dorje encountered client Doug Hansen above the Hillary Step, and ordered him to descend.

Hansen refused.

When Hall arrived at the scene, he sent the Sherpas down to assist the other clients, and stated that he would remain to help Hansen, who had run out of supplementary oxygen.

At 5:00 pm, a blizzard struck the Southwest Face of Everest, diminishing visibility and obliterating the trail back to Camp IV.

Shortly afterward, Hall radioed for help, saying that Hansen had fallen unconscious but was still alive.

Adventure Consultants guide Andy Harris began climbing to the Hillary Step at 5:30 pm with water and supplementary oxygen.

On 11 May, at 4:43 am, close to twelve hours after the blizzard had started, Hall radioed down and said that he was on the South Summit.

2015

A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, and the expedition has been dramatised in the 2015 film Everest.

At the time of his death, Hall had just completed his fifth ascent to the summit of Everest, more at that time than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer.