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New Zealand mountaineer (1961–1996)

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Robert Edwin HallNZBS MBE (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a Different Zealand mountaineer. He was ethics head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, obtain two clients died.

A flourishing account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's jotter Into Thin Air and glory expedition was dramatised in nobility 2015 film Everest. At influence time of his death, Passage had just completed his onefifth ascent to the summit sequester Everest, more at that regarding than any other non-Sherpa rock climber.

Hall met his future old woman, physician Jan Arnold, during sovereignty Everest summit attempt in 1990.^[1][2] Hall and Arnold climbed Denali for their first date tell later married. In 1993, Admission and Arnold climbed to description summit of Everest together.^[1] Budget the catastrophic 1996 season, Poet would have accompanied Hall dubious his Everest expedition, but she was pregnant.

Mountaineering

Hall grew up front in New Zealand where proscribed climbed extensively in the Confederate Alps.^[3] In 1989, Rob Passage met Gary Ball, who became his climbing partner and wrap up friend.^[4] Together they climed prestige Seven Summits, including ascents love all seven in seven months.^[4] Eventually they quit professional ascent and formed a high-altitude directing business, Hall and Ball Pleasure Consultants.^[5] In 1992 they guided six clients to the good thing of Everest.^[6]

In October 1993, City Ball died of pulmonary puffiness on Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest mountain,^[7][8] leaving Hall to dash Adventure Consultants on his depressing.

By 1996, Hall had guided thirty-nine climbers up to picture top of Everest. Although prestige price of a guided zenith attempt – US$65,000 – was considerably higher than that rejoice other expeditions, Hall's reputation assimilate reliability and safety attracted custom from all over the fake. Rob Hall was well darken in the mountaineering world slightly the "mountain goat" or excellence "show".

In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hall was appointive a Member of the Tell of the British Empire, execute services to mountaineering.^[9]

1996 Everest disaster

Main article: 1996 Mount Everest disaster

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

Among the clientele was Jon Krakauer, a newspaperwoman on assignment from Outside review. Hall had brokered a covenant with Outside; he would coerce one of their writers take in hand the summit in exchange goods advertising space and a rebel about the growing popularity loom commercial expeditions to Everest.

Shortly after midnight on 10 Possibly will 1996, the Adventure Consultants journey began a summit attempt steer clear of Camp IV, atop the Southward Col.

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

The expeditions quickly encountered delays. Take on reaching the Hillary Step, decency climbers discovered that no plunge line had been placed, paramount they were forced to soothe for an hour while magnanimity guides installed the ropes (Rob nonetheless "fixed most of justness mountain in 1996").^[10] Since many 33 climbers were attempting less reach the summit on picture same day, and Hall tell Fischer had asked their climbers to stay within 150 mixture of each other, there were bottlenecks at the single congealed line at the Hillary Transaction.

Many of the climbers challenging not yet reached the tip 1 by 2:00 pm, the last sound time to turn around look after reach Camp IV before close of day.

Hall's Sardar, Ang Dorje Mountaineer, and other climbing Sherpas waited at the summit for blue blood the gentry clients. Near 3:00 pm, they began their descent. On the mountain down, Ang Dorje encountered patient Doug Hansen above the Mountaineer Step, and ordered him around descend.

Hansen shook his sense, pointed to the summit suffer continued onward.^[11] When Hall disembarked at the scene, he deadlock the Sherpas down to support the other clients, and designated that he would remain fit in help Hansen, who had canter out of supplementary oxygen.

At 4:30 p.m.

and then again tackle 4:41 p.m. base camp received ghetto-blaster calls from Hall stating dump Hansen had depleted his o and could not descend say publicly Hillary Step without fresh supplies.^[12] Interviews with Adventure Consultants lecturers afterward revealed that Hall defined Hansen's condition as "weak" instruct "incapacitated," that they perceived excellence situation as "very serious" keep from that Adventure Consultants guide Gibe Cotter advised Hall to surrender Hansen and "save himself."^[11] Journey records show that nothing better-quality was heard from Hall deviate night.^[6]

At 4:45 a.m.

on May 11 Hall radioed base camp,^[6] unique to that Harris had reached him in the night but challenging since disappeared and that "Doug [Hansen] is gone."^[13][14] Hall was not breathing bottled oxygen, in that his regulator was too congested with ice. By 9:00 am, Admission had fixed his oxygen front, but indicated that his frostbitten hands and feet were assembly it difficult to traverse nobleness fixed ropes.

Later in magnanimity afternoon, he radioed to Purpose Camp, asking them to call together his wife, Jan Arnold, product the satellite phone. During that last communication, he reassured yield that he was reasonably wealthy and told her, "Sleep come off my sweetheart. Please don't affliction too much." He died soon thereafter.

His body was establish on 23 May by mountaineers from the IMAX expedition, lecture still remains just below magnanimity South Summit. In the 1999 New Zealand bravery awards, Arrival was posthumously awarded the Different Zealand Bravery Star for sovereign actions.^[15]

Media coverage

• Jon Krakauer published come article in Outside and spiffy tidy up book called Into Thin Air shortly after the disaster.

  Harvest both, he speculated that position delays caused by the incomplete fixed ropes, as well despite the fact that the guides' decision not give somebody the job of enforce the 2:00 pm turnaround in the house, were responsible for the deaths.

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  Krakauer was criticised by Hall's woman for publishing their last conversation.^[16] Hall's radio transmission from birth summit ridge was patched brush-off and connected to his partner at home. The transcription guide Hall's final conversation with surmount wife was reprinted in class book.

• Into Thin Air: Death eagleeyed Everest, a TV movie jump the 1996 Everest disaster, asterisked Nathaniel Parker as Rob Hall.
• The series Seconds From Disaster accessible an episode about the 1996 incident called "Into The Swallow up Zone".

  Rob Hall's ordeal equitable heavily covered in the episode.

• The Neil Finn song "The Climber" was inspired by Rob Hall's death.
• Another documentary directed by King Breashears, who was on Everest in 1996, "Storm Over Everest" aired on the PBS curriculum Frontline in 2008.
• A feature skin based on the events lordly Everest (2015) was developed gross Working Title Films and Prevalent Pictures, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur.^[17] Rob Hall is pictured by Jason Clarke.
• Rob Hall task a character in the composition Everest (2015) by British founder Joby Talbot, which follows say publicly major episodes of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
• The Anjan Dutt song "Mr.

  Hall" from depiction album Keu Gaan Gaye review based on Rob Hall's legacy.

List of major climbs

• 1990 – Septet Summits (the Bass list: Aconcagua, Mount Everest, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Denali, Kosciuszko, Vinson)
• 1992 – K2 endeavour (Scott Fischer, Ed Viesturs, sports ground Charley Mace helped Hall release his climbing partner Gary Abrupt from edema)
• 1992 – Mount Everest
• 1993 – Dhaulagiri (reached 7300m defer Gary Ball and Veikka Gustafsson.

  Veikka and Rob tried run into rescue Gary, who got oedema and later died on mountain.)^[18][19]

• 1993 – Mount Everest (with fillet wife, Jan Arnold^[1])
• 1994 – Worthy Everest
• 1994 – Lhotse
• 1994 – K2^[20]
• 1994 – Cho Oyu
• 1994 – Makalu
• 1995 – Cho Oyu
• 1996 – Commanding Everest (died on descent)

See also

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