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Gary Ball

New Zealand mountain climber
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    …partnership with fellow New Zealander Gary Ball. He made his first ascent of Everest in 1990, accompanied by Ball and Peter Hillary—son of Edmund Hillary, who, with Tenzing Norgay, first summitted the mountain. Over the next seven months Hall and Ball climbed the highest peaks on every other continent, thereby…

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    …partnership with fellow New Zealander Gary Ball. He made his first ascent of Everest in 1990, accompanied by Ball and Peter Hillary—son of Edmund Hillary, who, with Tenzing Norgay, first summitted the mountain. Over the next seven months Hall and Ball climbed the highest peaks on every other continent, thereby…

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