International Mountain Day

Olly Sanders – Senior Instructor PYB

“Changabang (aka the shining mountain) India. I read Pete Boardman‘s classic book during my first ascent of the west face in my youth, and until recently hadn’t had a second ascent . I was lucky to be invited on an attempt about 15 years ago and we had a good go but were stopped by massive snowfall. It was a fantastic desperately hard and humbling trip , but I got to see it in the full glow and to see why it was called the Shining Mountain”

Kenton Cool – Climber and Mountain Guide

“Everest. It’s totally defined my guiding career”

Charles Gay – Partnerships Manager, Ellis Brigham

“Carnedd Llewelyn. It tends to be quieter than it’s neighbours and has better views!”

Andrew Denton, CEO, Outdoor Industries Association

“An unnamed summit in Antarctica. If I have to name just one, single mountain from 50+ years of climbing, it’s an unnamed summit in Antarctica. My wife and I made the first ascent with a friend, Nick, as part of an extended ski mountaineering trip. We were down there for a month climbing and skiing incredible mountains, many of them unnamed and unclimbed. This particular one took three days. We stashed our skis about a hundred and fifty metres below the summit and climbed an airy, corniced ridge to a tiny pointed top – the first people ever to stand there.