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Rob Hall is portrayed by Jason Clarke. Rob Hall is a character in the opera Everest (2015) by British composer Joby Talbot, which follows the major episodes of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The Anjan Dutt song "Mr. Hall" from the album Keu Gaan Gaye is based on Rob Hall's legacy.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest to date after the 23 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the ...
Among them was guide Rob Hall, the first non-Sherpa to have summitted five times. Two books detailing the disaster, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev, both written by mountaineers who were on Mount Everest at the time, give conflicting accounts of the events. The 1996 record was surpassed in the 2014, 2015 and 2023 ...
However, Gary died in 1993, and Hall in 1996, leaving the company to Guy Cotter. [2] By the time of Rob's death, Rob had led 39 people to the summit of Mount Everest. [3] Rob Hall's friend and climbing partner Gary Ball died in his arms on 8,167m Dhaulagiri in October 1993. [5]
Hall helps one of the group members, Doug Hansen, to reach the top as the rest of the group heads back down. As Hall takes Hansen's picture, the action flashes back to show Hall's wife Jan awaiting his return in New Zealand. Jan has climbed Everest once before, but her pregnancy prevented her from making this trip. When the flashback ends ...
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
During the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, mountain guide Rob Hall and three other people died at the South Summit while descending from the main summit in an unexpected blizzard. Hall survived overnight, and established radio contact the following day, but froze to death later that day, May 11, 1996. His body remains on the South Summit. [7] [8]
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