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Also Known As Robert Edwin Hall
Born January 14, 1961 • Christchurch • New Zealand
Died May 11, 1996 (aged 35) • Mount Everest • Nepal

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Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand explorer
George Mallory
George Mallory
British explorer and mountaineer
Reinhold Messner.
Reinhold Messner
Italian explorer
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Austrian mountain climber
Oh Eun-Sun
South Korean mountain climber
Apa Sherpa
Apa Sherpa
Nepali mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay
Nepali-Indian mountaineer
Edward Plunket Taylor
Canadian businessman
John D. Hertz
American businessman
Fay Vincent
American baseball commissioner
Martin Eberhard
American entrepreneur
Tsutsumi Seiji
Japanese businessman
Steve Ross
American entrepreneur
Nolan Bushnell
American electrical engineer
John Zachary DeLorean
American automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur
Jack the Rapper
American disc jockey and publisher
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
Vicente Martínez Ybor
Spanish-born merchant
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen
American businesman