Kenton Cool

Kenton Cool

• Summited Mount Everest eighteen times and is one of the world’s best climbers
• The first non-sherpa to summit Everest 18 times
• Guided legendary adventurer Ranulph Fiennes up the Eiger’s North Face and Mt Everest
• Keynotes on teamwork, goal setting, risk, obstacles and achieving high performance

Kenton Cool is one of the world’s leading high-altitude climbers. He has successfully climbed Mount Everest eighteen times. He was inspired by Hillary and Norgay’s first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.

He has climbed extensively all over the world, establishing new routes and making first ascents on peaks in Alaska, France, and India. In 2003, he was nominated for a Piolet d’Or award for a route on Annapurna III.

Cool is also one of the world’s most sought-after guides. His track record on Everest is the best, without doubt, of any leader. In 2007, Kenton successfully guided Sir Ranulph Fiennes up the North Face of the Eiger before leading him to a successful Everest summit in 2009. This is more impressive because Fiennes suffers from vertigo and angina! In recent years, the Olympic Pledge and the Everest Triple Crown have cemented Cool’s position as one of Britain’s most high-profile and celebrated climbers.

He is regularly featured on BBC TV and Radio, in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, and adventure publications like Outside Magazine and Sidetracked. He is also an obsessive fitness enthusiast and cycling is a second passion to climbing. He has completed two Haute Routes across the Alps, considered some of the world’s highest and toughest cycling competitions. He describes climbing Mount Everest as easy’ compared to the 485-mile Alps race, taking in 19 mountains and covering a massive 21,000m of ascent in total.

Kenton Cool: Sunday Times Cover_August 4 2024

Speaking

Kenton Cool is an energetic and engaging motivational speaker who delivers popular keynote speeches on accomplishing challenges. He vividly and emotionally relates his experience climbing to the summit of some of the world’s highest mountains. Cool’s presentations focus on team building and leadership. Constantly seeking new challenges and breaking new records, his talks are up-to-date and relevant in a changing world.

Entertaining and inspiring, there is also a serious element, as Cool relates with great intimacy some of the most adverse situations he’s encountered and the personal fears he’s had to overcome across many successful summits of Everest and further afield. Each presentation is complemented by an impressive array of stunning photographs and videos taken from expeditions.