MOUNTAINEER

Rob Hall

1961 - 1996

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Robert Edwin Hall (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow guide, and two clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air and the expedition was dramatised in the 2015 film Everest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rob Hall has received more than 6,805,108 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Rob Hall is the 32nd most popular mountaineer (down from 29th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 28th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular New Zealander Mountaineer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Rob Hall ranks 32 out of 56. Before him are Krzysztof Wielicki, Jon Krakauer, Peter Habeler, Fanny Bullock Workman, Erhard Loretan, and Riccardo Cassin. After him are Ardito Desio, Ueli Steck, Vittorio Sella, Yevgeniy Abalakov, Verney Lovett Cameron, and Simone Moro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Rob Hall ranks 170. Before him are Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Graham McTavish, Andrey Korotayev, Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Potanin, and Steve Holmes. After him are Janet McTeer, Chendo, Arundhati Roy, Jaroslav Šilhavý, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, and Sergio Scariolo. Among people deceased in 1996, Rob Hall ranks 176. Before him are Akram al-Hawrani, Joanne Dru, Laurens van der Post, Gottfried von Einem, George Burns, and Kenneth Bainbridge. After him are George Kojac, Veronica Guerin, Eno Raud, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Andrey Lukanov, and Jamie Uys.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Rob Hall ranks 39 out of 303. Before him are Peter Snell (1938), Manu Bennett (1969), Clive Revill (1930), Taika Waititi (1975), Janet Frame (1924), and Gary Thain (1948). After him are Ronald Syme (1903), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Keith Urban (1967), Jacinda Ardern (1980), William Phillips (1914), and Roy Kerr (1934).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In New Zealand

Among mountaineers born in New Zealand, Rob Hall ranks 2. Before him are Edmund Hillary (1919).

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