Rob Casserley

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]