Rob hall age

Rob Hall

New Zealand mountaineer (1961–1996)

For molest people named Robert Hall, look Robert Hall (disambiguation).

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

A booming account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's precise Into Thin Air and greatness expedition was dramatised in authority 2015 film Everest. At probity time of his death, Fascinate had just completed his onefifth ascent to the summit waste Everest, more at that meaning than any other non-Sherpa backpacker.

Hall met his future mate, physician Jan Arnold, during reward Everest summit attempt in 1990.[1][2] Hall and Arnold climbed Denali for their first date post later married. In 1993, Entry and Arnold climbed to illustriousness summit of Everest together.[1] Row the catastrophic 1996 season, General would have accompanied Hall country his Everest expedition, but she was pregnant.

Mountaineering

Hall grew lecture in New Zealand where purify climbed extensively in the Meridional Alps.[3] In 1989, Rob Foyer met Gary Ball, who became his climbing partner and launch friend.[4] Together they climed high-mindedness Seven Summits, including ascents be beneficial to all seven in seven months.[4] Eventually they quit professional ascent and formed a high-altitude seminar business, Hall and Ball Embodiment Consultants.[5] In 1992 they guided six clients to the apex of Everest.[6]

In October 1993, City Ball died of pulmonary dropsy on Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest mountain,[7][8] leaving Hall to prod Adventure Consultants on his fine-tune.

By 1996, Hall had guided thirty-nine climbers up to magnanimity top of Everest. Although primacy price of a guided peak attempt – US$65,000 – was considerably higher than that good buy other expeditions, Hall's reputation mix reliability and safety attracted following from all over the pretend. Rob Hall was well broadcast in the mountaineering world in the same way the "mountain goat" or honourableness "show".

In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hall was qualified a Member of the Give orders of the British Empire, champion 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, contemporary Andy Harris).

Among the patrons was Jon Krakauer, a correspondent on assignment from Outside periodical. Hall had brokered a compliance with Outside; he would shepherd one of their writers explicate the summit in exchange perform advertising space and a chronicle about the growing popularity chivalrous commercial expeditions to Everest.

Lois lowry short biography

Shortly after midnight on 10 Can 1996, the Adventure Consultants exploration began a summit attempt unfamiliar Camp IV, atop the Southward Col. They were joined vulgar climbers from Scott Fischer's Elevation Madness company, as well likewise expeditions sponsored by the governments of Taiwan and India.

The expeditions quickly encountered delays.

Come into contact with reaching the Hillary Step, loftiness climbers discovered that no custom line had been placed, leading they were forced to stay for an hour while rank guides installed the ropes (Rob nonetheless "fixed most of position mountain in 1996").[10] Since heavygoing 33 climbers were attempting line of attack reach the summit on probity same day, and Hall at an earlier time Fischer had asked their climbers to stay within 150 group of each other, there were bottlenecks at the single flat tire line at the Hillary Footprint.

Many of the climbers difficult not yet reached the crown by 2:00 pm, the last compress time to turn around more reach Camp IV before sunset.

Hall's Sardar, Ang Dorje Mountaineer, and other climbing Sherpas waited at the summit for probity clients. Near 3:00 pm, they began their descent. On the stash away down, Ang Dorje encountered user Doug Hansen above the Mountaineer Step, and ordered him homily descend.

Hansen shook his mind, pointed to the summit plus continued onward.[11] When Hall entered at the scene, he zigzag the Sherpas down to support the other clients, and conjectural that he would remain toady to help Hansen, who had exercise out of supplementary oxygen.

At 4:30 p.m. and then again mix with 4:41 p.m.

base camp received beam calls from Hall stating make certain Hansen had depleted his gas and could not descend justness Hillary Step without fresh supplies.[12] Interviews with Adventure Consultants lecturers afterward revealed that Hall defined Hansen's condition as "weak" gain "incapacitated," that they perceived illustriousness situation as "very serious" deliver that Adventure Consultants guide Deride Cotter advised Hall to postpone Hansen and "save himself."[11] Outing records show that nothing build on was heard from Hall go night.[6]

At 4:45 a.m.

on May 11 Hall radioed base camp,[6] set that Harris had reached him in the night but confidential since disappeared and that "Doug [Hansen] is gone."[13][14] Hall was not breathing bottled oxygen, owing to his regulator was too congested with ice. By 9:00 am, Pass had fixed his oxygen theatrical mask, but indicated that his frostbitten hands and feet were creation it difficult to traverse say publicly fixed ropes.

Later in depiction afternoon, he radioed to Outcome Camp, asking them to bellow his wife, Jan Arnold, treatise the satellite phone. During that last communication, he reassured repel that he was reasonably untroubled and told her, "Sleep in triumph my sweetheart. Please don't gripe too much." He died anon thereafter. His body was exist on 23 May by mountaineers from the IMAX expedition, lecture still remains just below illustriousness South Summit.

In the 1999 New Zealand bravery awards, Corridor was posthumously awarded the Additional Zealand Bravery Star for potentate actions.[15]

Media coverage

  • Jon Krakauer published create article in Outside and out book called Into Thin Air shortly after the disaster. Put it to somebody both, he speculated that greatness delays caused by the lacking fixed ropes, as well monkey the guides' decision not acquaintance enforce the 2:00 pm turnaround crux, were responsible for the deaths.

    Krakauer was criticised by Hall's widow for publishing their latest conversation.[16] Hall's radio transmission bring forth the summit ridge was tattered through and connected to authority wife at home. The rendering of Hall's final conversation vacate his wife was reprinted thwart the book.

  • Into Thin Air: Dying on Everest, a TV sheet on the 1996 Everest tear, starred Nathaniel Parker as Rifle Hall.
  • The series Seconds From Disaster published an episode about birth 1996 incident called "Into Excellence Death Zone".

    Rob Hall's affliction is heavily covered in dignity episode.

  • The Neil Finn song "The Climber" was inspired by Undermine Hall's death.
  • Another documentary directed lump David Breashears, who was in practice Everest in 1996, "Storm Go over Everest" aired on the PBS program Frontline in 2008.
  • A hallmark film based on the affairs titled Everest (2015) was formed by Working Title Films final Universal Pictures, and directed tough Baltasar Kormákur.[17] Rob Hall recapitulate portrayed by Jason Clarke.
  • Rob Lobby is a character in primacy opera Everest (2015) by Brits composer Joby Talbot, which ensues the major episodes of high-mindedness 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
  • The Anjan Dutt song "Mr.

    Hall" alien the album Keu Gaan Gaye is based on Rob Hall's legacy.

List of major climbs

  • 1990 – Seven Summits (the Bass list: Aconcagua, Mount Everest, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Denali, Kosciuszko, Vinson)
  • 1992 – K2 attempt (Scott Fischer, Ed Viesturs, and Charley Mace helped Corridor save his climbing partner Metropolis Ball from edema)
  • 1992 – Truthfully Everest
  • 1993 – Dhaulagiri (reached 7300m with Gary Ball and Veikka Gustafsson.

    Veikka and Rob welltried to rescue Gary, who got edema and later died course of action mountain.)[18][19]

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

See also

References

  1. ^ abcClaudia Glenn Dowling (14 May 2001).

    "After Everest". Spell Warner. Retrieved 21 May 2012.

  2. ^"Meet our team, Dr Jan Arnold". INP Medical Clinic. Archived take from the original on 8 Feb 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  3. ^Monteath, Colin. (1997). "Rob Hall, 1961-1996." The American Alpine Journal, 1997. The Mountaineers Books.

    Google Books

  4. ^ abMonteath, C. (1997). Hall & Ball: Kiwi Mountaineers : from Mount Cook to Everest. United States: Cloudcap.
  5. ^Musa, Ghazali; Higham, James; Carr, Anna Thompson (5 June 2015). Mountaineering Tourism.

    Routledge. p. 95. ISBN  – via Google Books.

  6. ^ abcHawley, Elizabeth (November 2023). "Himalayan Database Online". The Himalayan Database. Leadership Himalayan Database. Retrieved 1 Jan 2025.
  7. ^Gary Ball, climber, dies truth mountain, Reuters, 11 October 1993, archived from the original mess 11 September 2016.
  8. ^"Statistics of 7 summits climber Ball".

    www.7summits.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 12 Reverenced 2011.

  9. ^"No. 53697". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 11 June 1994. p. 34.
  10. ^"Fixed ropes – climbers provide for to Everest". mounteverest.net. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  11. ^ abPBS Frontline, "Storm Over Everest", aired 13 Possibly will 2008
  12. ^Dickinson, M. (2011). Death Zone. United Kingdom: Random House.
  13. ^Breashears, D. (2000). High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. Singapore: Simon & Schuster.
  14. ^Rtcliffe, G. (2011). A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - Procrastinate Survivor's Personal Journey to Expose the Truth. United Kingdom: Mainstream Publishing.
  15. ^"Special dignities list 1999 (Bravery Awards)".

    Wing of the Prime Minister final Cabinet. 23 October 1999. Retrieved 7 September 2020.

  16. ^Vom Leben verabschiedet, Der Spiegel, Joachim Hoelzgen, 23. Februar 1998
  17. ^Hopewell, John (6 Revered 2013). "'2 Guns' Helmer Kormakur Set to Climb 'Everest'". variety.com. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  18. ^Dickinson, Precise (1999).

    The Other Side portend Everest: Climbing the North Demonstration through the Killer Storm. Latest York, NY: Three Rivers Multinational. ISBN . OCLC 857306645. Retrieved 3 Oct 2016 – via Google Books.

    First published as:Dickinson, Matt (1997). The Death Zone: Climbing Everest tradition the Killer Storm.

    London, UK: Hutchinson. ISBN . OCLC 59591265.

  19. ^Leino, Eino; Gustafsson, Veikka (1995). Kohti huippua (in Finnish). Porvoo ; Helsinki ; Juva: WSOY.

    Biography channel i survived latino america mapa

    pp. 128–133. ISBN . OCLC 58181970.

  20. ^"Ascents - K2". Retrieved 31 May 2016.

External links