Robert Hargraves Casserley is a UK emergency and family doctor and mountaineer who has reached the peak of

Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...

eight times. He appeared in the BBC documentary '' Everest ER''. Casserley was the first Westerner to twice double-summit Everest in one week. He was a guide on Everest in 2015 during the

2015 Mount Everest avalanches During the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a MW 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. Shaking from the quake triggered an avalanche from Pumori into Base Camp on Mount Everest. At least twenty-two people were killed, surpassing an ...

. During his 2015 expedition, an earthquake hit

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

causing an avalanche at

Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...

base camp, which his team survived. Prior to that, he had reached the summit eight times.

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