Essays on Rob Hall

Every climber that went into the 1996 Everest expedition, which turned out to be a disaster that ended with a freak storm killing eight climbers, knew that trying to climb Everest would be like playing a giant game of Russian roulette. Some were lucky and met their ends suddenly, while some kept fighting until they simply couldn’t fight anymore. Then there were the few that willingly sacrificed their lives in order to give others a fighting chance, and those of…