World Mountain Guide, Mountain Climber, Ice Climber, Adventurer, Public Speaker, Broadcaster and 2012 Olympic Torch Bearer - Kenton Cool is one of the world's leading alpine climbers with 16 Everest summits to his name, along with many other incredible feats.
His list of achievements continues to grow:
- He was the first European to summit Mount Everest fifteen times
- The first non-Asian to summit Everest twice in one week
- He fulfilled 'The Olympic Games Pledge' in 2012 (whereby a 90 year old pledge made by Great Britain to Baron Pierre de Coubertin to place a 1924 Olympic Gold Medal on the Everest summit was completed four weeks before the London 2012 Opening Ceremony).
- He proved 3G is on the Mt Everest summit for Samsung and made the first 3G call (to his wife)
- He sent the first Tweet from the summit of Mt Everest - which was one of the epic tweets of all time
- He guided Sir Ranulph Fiennes to the summit of Mount Everest and the Eiger (raising £3m for Marie Curie Cancer Care & generating the most hits ever for their website)
- He's the only Britain to have skied down two 8000m mountains
- The first person to complete the Everest Triple Crown – summiting Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse in one single push from basecamp.
- May 2022 Non-Sherpa record for the most ascents of Everest
Kenton Cool graduated with a BSc from the University of Leeds in 1994 after studying Geological Sciences.
He first discovered mountaineering when, as a Scout, he read about Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. An obsession with rock climbing followed when he was at Leeds University and, after graduating and moving to Sheffield, he pursued his climbing ambitions further.
But in 1996, he suffered a fall from a rock face and shattered both heel bones. After a year of surgery and therapy he managed to regain his climbing form and joined the British Mountain Guides scheme.
Kenton Cool is now based in the Alps and Greater Ranges of the Himalaya as a fully qualified IFMGA Guide and Expedition Leader.
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