Adventure Consultants
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Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants |
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| Industry | Adventure travel |
| Founded | 1991 in Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Rob Hall Gary Ball |
| Headquarters | Wanaka, New Zealand |
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Guy Cotter (CEO) |
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| Website | adventureconsultants |
Adventure Consultants, formerly Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, is the name of an adventure company founded by Rob Hall and Gary Ball in 1991, and noted for pioneering the commercialisation of Mount Everest, and for the 1996 climb of Mount Everest in which several people died. The New Zealand company would take trekking and climbing groups to various sites, including Mount Everest, for a fee. After the deaths of both Gary Ball and Rob Hall, the company was purchased by Guy Cotter who continued the business. Prior to starting AC, Hall and Ball achieved celebrity status in New Zealand after completing the Seven Summits in a seven-month time-frame, under the close scrutiny of the New Zealand media. Hall and Ball's friendship was noted in the mountaineering world, having undertaken 47 expeditions together.
Gary Ball and Rob Hall founded Adventure Consultants in 1991, based out of New Zealand. They were famous New Zealand climbers that got attention for offering commercial trips to Mount Everest's summit. However, Gary died in 1993, and Hall in 1996, leaving the company to Guy Cotter. By the time of Rob's death, Rob had led 39 people to the summit of Mount Everest.
Rob Hall's friend and climbing partner Gary Ball died in his arms on 8,167m Dhaulagiri in October 1993. Gary had come down with case of high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) at six and a half kilometres altitude. Despite this loss Hall went on to lead a highly successful AC expedition to Mount Everest in 1994 with Ed Viesturs. This was Hall's fourth summit of Everest. In 1995 Hall's expedition had to turn back because of bad weather as they neared the summit. In May 1996 Hall and a group of climbers made it to the summit of Mount Everest, but he and several other members of his party died on the way down. This event had a noted impact on media, appearing in various books and films. The disaster became very well known, with ten million people reading a book about the disaster before the decade was out, and the events were also referenced in what was the highest-grossing IMAX film up to that time—a film shot during the same climbing season as the disaster, though the filmmakers summited later in the season.
In 1996, Hall also employed two Sherpa people, Ang Dorje Sherpa and Ngawang Norbu Sherpa who managed to survive. (see also List of people who died climbing Mount Everest)
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