There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts My primary role was doctor for the expedition, caring for our whole team of Sherpas and guided climbers, and incidentally for members of several other teams as well,” said Arnold.Though she enjoyed the climb, it wasn’t easy. For some weeks, I didn’t feel alone, as I had his baby daughter inside me, moving even. She had shared his dreams and she understood the risks. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss A bad bout of bronchitis nearly prevented me attempting the final summit push.

The following year he climbed another Himalayan peak, Numbur (6,954 metres), but it was at home, in the New Zealand Alps, that he really caused a stir, making the first winter ascent, with Steve Lassher, of the Caroline Face of Mt Cook. Then in 1987 he returned to the Himalaya, intent on climbing some of the very highest peaks.

Hall always said the "logistics of retrieving a body high on the mountain above 8,000m was virtually impossible", his widow Jan Arnold told the BBC.

The company quickly built up a base of loyal clients, with a remarkable success rate on the world's most prestigious peaks, particularly Everest.
Among the clients was Shortly after midnight on 10 May 1996, the Adventure Consultants expedition began a summit attempt from Camp IV, atop the The expeditions quickly encountered delays. Adventure Consultants guide Andy Harris began climbing to the Hillary Step at 5:30 pm with water and supplementary oxygen. A doctor by profession, Jan Arnold is a mountaineering enthusiast in her own right, so it makes sense that in 1993, she climbed Mount Everest with her husband Rob Hall. real-world solutions, and more. Afterwards he wrote, "Fortune had smiled on me. "Dr Arnold, portrayed by Keira Knightly, said the film was largely accurate, but did not tell enough of the bravery and hard work of the sherpas. One group was led by Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants, another was led by Scott Fischer of Mountain Madness, an expedition was organized by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and there was a Taiwanese expedition. In the words of an old colleague, Nick Banks, ''Rob was never fazed by obstructive bureaucracy. Douglas Lanson, whose life Hall tried to save last week, was an American Post Office clerk, with 22 years' climbing experience, who had mortgaged himself up to the hilt to pay for his Everest dream.


"These words suggest that, for all the commercial hard-headedness, he had not lost a sense of wonder. There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts Keira was lovely, charming and easy to talk with.”Arnold claims that watching Knightley play her was surreal. He was guiding Everest for the second time, along with climbing partner Gary Ball and guide Guy Cotter. Keira portrayed it very close to how it really was,” said Arnold.It’s difficult to understand how Arnold made her peace with losing her husband, but she also had a firm grasp that it was part of the risk.“I knew, before I even spoke with Rob, that he must be very close to death, having spent a night out close to the summit. {{#sender.isSelf}}

We shall probably never know exactly how he came to be on the summit so late, only starting to descend at about 3 in the afternoon.

On 11 May, at 4:43 am, close to twelve hours after the blizzard had started, Hall radioed down and said that he was on the South Summit. Everest in 1996, has climbed the highest peak in Africa, Mt. The film accuracy might make it harder for her. Hall was not breathing bottled oxygen, because his regulator was too choked with ice.

to your comment. We asked Arnold if she was worried about her daughter watching the film.“Before we watched the movie for the first time, I was worried as to how it would feel for Sarah, as well as for the other real people involved. Nor was he deluded about the risks of high altitude, particularly after Gary Ball died of pulmonary oedema on Dhauligiri in 1993. {{#replies}}

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. "So I understood the risks, and I did understand that nothing was guaranteed. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when "Dr Arnold said she understood the dangers her husband faced, as someone who had herself climbed Mt Everest and worked as expedition doctor for years.