Rob Hall

Rob Hall (1961 to 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer and the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide and two clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition appears in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air, and the expedition was dramatised in the 2015 film Everest. At the time of his death Hall had just completed his fifth ascent to the summit of Everest, more than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer then. He met his future wife, the physician Jan Arnold, during his Everest summit attempt in 1990; they climbed Denali for their first date and later married, and in 1993 they climbed to the summit of Everest together.