Rob Hall was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, Andy Harris, and two clients, Doug Hansen and Yasuko Namba died. At the time of his death, Hall had just completed his fifth ascent to the summit of Everest, more at that time than any other nonSherpa mountaineer.

Hall’s Everest expedition proceeded without incident until the afternoon of May 10. Shortly after midnight on May 10, the expedition began the summit push from Camp IV atop the South Col. They were joined by three other parties, Scott Fischer’s Mountain Madness, as well as parties from Taiwan and India (North side).

As the climbers from three expeditions attempted to reach the summit, they quickly encountered a series of problems and delays. Upon reaching the Hillary Step, the climbers found that no fixed ropes had been placed, and they were forced to wait for an hour while the guides installed the ropes.

Things began to go seriously wrong. With a large number of climbers on the move at the same time, there were bottlenecks at the single fixed line at the Hillary Step. As crucial time spent on laying new ropes, the tight scheduling for the climb began to slip.


This is the story of the last few hours of Rob Hall before he died on Mount Everest.


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