Rob Hall, Mountaineer

Rob Hall, Mountaineer

Rob Hall climbed with Gary Ball, and the two were celebrities in New Zealand. Together they had climbed 16 mountains.1

Rob Hall

Climbing with Gary Ball

Hall and Ball had climbed 16 mountains together and were celebrities in New Zealand.1

In 1990 Ball summited Mount Everest with Peter Hillary and Rob Hall. Ball and Hall also climbed the Seven Summits in seven months in 1990.2,3

Ball died in October 1993 of high-altitude pulmonary edema while climbing Dhaulagiri with Hall. Hall buried Ball's body in a crevasse on the mountain, and it was rediscovered ten years later.4,5

Honours

Hall was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to mountaineering.6

Hall was posthumously awarded the New Zealand Bravery Star in the 1999 New Zealand bravery awards.7

Everest in 1996

Jon Krakauer reached the summit and returned to camp, but four teammates, including group leader Rob Hall, died while descending in the storm.8

Fifteen people died on Everest by the end of the 1996 climbing season, the deadliest single year in Everest history to that point.9

  1. Everest and the Seven Summits2,3

    Ball summited Mount Everest with Peter Hillary and Rob Hall, and Ball and Hall climbed the Seven Summits in seven months.

  2. Death of Gary Ball on Dhaulagiri4

    Ball died of high-altitude pulmonary edema while climbing Dhaulagiri with Hall.

  3. Member of the Order of the British Empire6

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

  4. The Everest disaster8,10

    Krakauer took part in a guided ascent of Mount Everest and was caught in the disaster. Hall died while descending in the storm.

  5. New Zealand Bravery Star7

    Hall was posthumously awarded the New Zealand Bravery Star in the New Zealand bravery awards.