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Jul 7, 2023 · Doug Hansen, an American climber and postal worker, tragically lost his life during the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Hansen, dubbed “mailman” due to his occupation, joined Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team with the aim of summiting Everest that season.
- Meet Doug Hansen
- 1996 Adventure Consultants Expedition
- Discouragement and Decision
- The Summit and The Tragic Descent
I picked Doug Hansen for this maiden voyage of Legendary Letter Carriers after seeing him depicted in the recent movieEverest, the story of the 1996 disaster on Mt. Everest that killed 8 climbers, one of whom was Doug. In the movie, Doug Hansen is identified as a mailman, but I believe this is just a case of Hollywood rewriting the script because, ...
Doug Hansen's first attempt on Mt. Everest came in 1995 as part of an expedition led by an accomplished New Zealand climber, Rob Hall, who formed a company called "Adventure Consultants" to guide clients to the summit of notable peaks around the world. Rob Hall's customers paid $65,000 apiece for the privilege, and he had an excellent track record ...
Since oxygen at the summit of Mt. Everest is approximately one-third of what it is at sea level, climbing the peak requires a month-long acclimatization period at lower elevations of the mountain. As is typical for Everest climbers, Doug complained of respiratory difficulties during this acclimatization, which he reported to team leader Rob Hall. W...
On May 10th, 1996, the day of the final ascent, Doug Hansen did not appear to be in good physical condition. He mentioned to his fellow team members that he had not eaten or slept for a few days, after which he finally told guide Rob Hall that he had decided to head back down. As Krakauer reports, "...a brief conversation ensued. Nobody overheard t...
Near 15:00, they began their descent. On the way down, Ang Dorje encountered client Doug Hansen above the Hillary Step and ordered him to descend. Hansen did not respond verbally, but shook his head and pointed upward, toward the summit.
Mar 21, 2023 · Doug Hansen was an American climber and postal worker who died during the infamous 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Known as the “mailman” due to his profession, Hansen was part of Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team, which aimed to summit Everest during the 1996 climbing season.
- Yasuko Namba. A businesswoman from Japan, Namba summited Everest in 1996 to become the second Japanese woman to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents.
- Rob Hall. The owner of Adventure Consultants, Hall had made a name for himself in mountaineering when, in 1990, he and Gary Ball summited the seven highest mountains in the world in seven months.
- Andy Harris. A guide for Adventure Consultants and helicopter skiing guide in the winter, Harris was making his first Everest summit attempt with the 1996 expedition.
- Doug Hansen. A postal worker from Washington state who had been climbing for 12 years, Hansen turned back just short of Everest's summit in 1995. Lou Kasischke: Doug was a very likeable, easygoing person.
RESOLUTION TO GRANT EMERITUS STATUS TO DOUGLAS E. HANSEN, PH.D. WHEREAS, Saginaw Valley State University grants emeritus/emerita status to retiring faculty/administrators who have served the University with distinction; and.
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