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Ball Glacier is a 7 nautical miles (13 km) long glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica named by the New Zealand Geographic Board after Ball. [13] Ball climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party in 1976–77, and camped on this glacier; he was field assistant with R.H. Findlay's New Zealand Antarctic Research Program party to this area, 1980–81.
Adventure Consultants, formerly Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, is a New Zealand-based adventure company that brings trekking and climbing groups to various locations. Founded by Rob Hall and Gary Ball in 1991, it helped pioneer the commercialisation of Mount Everest , During its 1996 Mount Everest climb eight people died , including Hall ...
Andrew Michael Harris NZBS (29 September 1964 – 11 May 1996), commonly known by his nickname Andy Harris, was a New Zealand mountain guide who died in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Harris was one of the guides for the Adventure Consultants ' 1996 Everest expedition, led by Rob Hall .
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Eventually they quit professional climbing and formed a high-altitude guiding business, Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants. [5] In 1992 they guided six clients to the top of Everest. [6] In October 1993, Gary Ball died of pulmonary edema on Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest mountain, [7] [8] leaving Hall to run Adventure Consultants on ...
Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa (May 5, 1971 [1] [2] – September 25, 1996) was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter, best known for his work as the climbing Sirdar for Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition to Everest in Spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered one of the worst disasters in the history of ...
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As Cas & Jonesy they became the first people to cross the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in a kayak. [7] They set off from Forster, New South Wales on 13 November 2007 and arrived at Ngamotu Beach in New Plymouth, New Zealand on 13 January 2008, taking a total of 60 days, 20 hours and 50 minutes for crossing.