CLIMBER

Gary Ball

New Zealand

With Rob Hall completed the Seven Summits in seven months in 1990 and co-founded Adventure Consultants, a pioneer of guided Everest expeditions.

Gary Ian Ball (died October 1993) was a New Zealand mountaineer who summited Mount Everest twice, in 1990 and 1992. With his long-standing partner Rob Hall he completed the Seven Summits — the highest peak on each continent — in just seven months in 1990, a speed record that made both men's names, and in 1991 the pair founded Adventure Consultants, becoming pioneers of commercially guided Everest expeditions. Ball died of high-altitude pulmonary oedema while climbing Dhaulagiri with Hall; his body was first laid in a crevasse on the mountain, where it remained for a decade before being rediscovered and reburied by his family in 2004.

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