Adventure Consultants

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Adventure Consultants

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Also known as: Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants

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1996 Mount Everest disaster
Background and overcrowding
…Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall’s company, Adventure Consultants, featured the guides Hall, Andy “Harold” Harris, and Michael Groom and a group of Sherpas led by Ang Dorje. Its clients were Yasuko Namba, Doug Hansen, Frank Fischbeck, Seaborn Beck Weathers, Stuart Hutchison, Lou Kasischke, John Taske, and writer and journalist Jon Krakauer.…
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…Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall’s company, Adventure Consultants, featured the guides Hall, Andy “Harold” Harris, and Michael Groom and a group of Sherpas led by Ang Dorje. Its clients were Yasuko Namba, Doug Hansen, Frank Fischbeck, Seaborn Beck Weathers, Stuart Hutchison, Lou Kasischke, John Taske, and writer and journalist Jon Krakauer.…
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Rob Hall
Their firm, Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, organized climbing expeditions for paying clients. In 1992 Hall and Ball successfully led commercial expeditions to Everest, Aconcagua, and Vinson Massif (the latter two mountains are the highest in South America and Antarctica, respectively). They again climbed Everest in 1993,…
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Their firm, Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, organized climbing expeditions for paying clients. In 1992 Hall and Ball successfully led commercial expeditions to Everest, Aconcagua, and Vinson Massif (the latter two mountains are the highest in South America and Antarctica, respectively). They again climbed Everest in 1993,…
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