Rob Hall

Mountain Climber

Birthday January 14, 1961

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace New Zealand

DEATH DATE May 11, 1996 (35)

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About

Mount Everest climber who had reached the summit of the formidable mountain five times before he passed away during a 1996 expedition to the same peak.

Before Fame

Early in his life, he climbed both the Southern Alps and the Seven Summits.

Trivia

In the early 1990s, he started a business called Adventure Consultants.

Family Life

He and his physician wife, Jan Arnold, met while climbing Mount Everest in 1990. Arnold gave birth to his daughter, Sarah, two short months after his death.

Associated With

Nathaniel Parker portrayed him in the 1996 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest.