Rob Hall

Rob Hall ( born January 14, 1961 † May 11, 1996 on Mount Everest ) was a New Zealand mountaineer and entrepreneur. Hall came on 11 May 1996 during a disaster on Mount Everest died. He was the leader of a commercial expedition. Participants paid $ 65,000. One of the participants was Jon Krakauer, who is over this disaster a book written ("In Thin Air ").

Mountaineer

Rob Hall climbed extensively in the 1980s in New Zealand's Southern Alps. 1982 he managed the second ascent of Ama Dablam on the North Ridge and second ascent of Mount Numbur ( 6,958 m). In 1990, he boarded with Gary over the Seven Summits. This occurred within seven months, where they started with the Mount Everest. In 1992 he ascended the K2 in the first trial and the Mount Everest. In 1993 he was on Dhaulagiri go. Along with Ed Viesturs he boarded the 1994 Cho Oyu and Lhotse.

Expedition leader

Hall acted as an entrepreneur and expedition leader at the summit climb in 1996. He had personally paying customers Doug Hansen accompanied as a mountain guide on the summit, which was very slow. This customer was forced to turn back just before the summit in the year before and now wanted absolutely to the top. Rob Hall ignored the set of his own reversal time of 14 clock and helped his clients, despite this time is exceeded, the summit climb. He was in previous years, several times managed to bring all customers to the summit. In addition, competition came on in the field of commercial expedition, which probably put him under pressure to succeed, see Scott Fischer. But these are speculations why he ignored the set of his own reversal time and has brought himself and his clients in danger.

Both Hall and his client Doug Hansen, were far to the regular, security serving reversal times even among the last Gipfelersteigern of May 10, 1996, which then in the upcoming snow storm, exhausted and hypothermic at coming to an end oxygen inventories, return not more managed. Just below the South Summit at about 8750 meters altitude died Hall and Hansen. The body Halls is on the way; Hansen probably crashed. From the last hours Halls exist in Jon Krakauer, a report, as several rescue attempts failed and Hall at last to die in the knowledge passed with a satellite phone call from his wife.

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung was published on 10 May 2006 an interview about the problems with Ekkehard Gundelach, which was in 1994 with Rob Hall on Everest.

The events of 10 and 11 May 1996 See also → accident on Mount Everest ( 1996).