Rob Casserley

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Robert Hargraves Casserley is a UK emergency and family doctor and mountaineer who has reached the peak of Mount Everest eight times. He appeared in the BBC documentary Everest ER . [1]

Casserley was the first Westerner to twice double-summit Everest in one week. [2] He was a guide on Everest in 2015 during the 2015 Mount Everest avalanches. [3] During his 2015 expedition, an earthquake hit Nepal causing an avalanche at Everest base camp, which his team survived. [4] Prior to that, he had reached the summit eight times. [5]

Casserley was both a climbing partner and long time friend of Henry Todd. [6] He joined Todd on about a dozen of the Himalayan expeditions that Todd led to various eight thousanders from the early part of the 21st century, and was co-leader of several. Todd was a non-climbing member of the base camp team on several expeditions that Casserley led to the Everest area, they summited Cho Oyu together in 2002 and Manaslu in 2009. [7]

References

  1. James, Tori (2016). Peak Performance. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   9781682990490 . Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  2. Armstrong, Nigel (9 March 2012). "A life of adventure". SaltWire Network. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  3. "Former P.E.I. doctor survives Mount Everest avalanche". CBC. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  4. "Former P.E.I. doctor survives Mount Everest avalanche".
  5. Martienssen, Tom (28 April 2015). "Nepal quake on Everest: BBC man's lucky escape". BBC News. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  6. Arnette, Alan (17 February 2014). "Everest 2014: Henry Todd the small quiet guide today". Climbing@Alan Arnette. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  7. "Find Expedition Options". Himalayan Database. Retrieved 19 November 2025.