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Get ready to reach new hights on 21st June with Kenton Cool in Everest: The Untold Story
Get ready to reach new hights on 21st June with Kenton Cool in Everest: The Untold Story. Celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first successful summit of the world’s highest mountain and discover with Kenton the thrills, joys, and dangers that comes with mountaineering!
Everest / Chomolungma has long captured the imagination of mountaineers and aspiring adventurers as the pinnacle of climbing: simply the highest point on the planet that ‘must be reached’. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first successful summit, Kenton Cool – the 16 x summit non-Sherpa world record-holder – has created a new show to take audiences on a fascinating journey through the history and the highs and lows of summit attempts on one of the world’s most magnificent mountains: from its first ‘discovery’ as part of the Great Indian Trigonometric Survey, through to the perceived ‘bucket list adventure’ that it is considered today.
About Kenton Cool:
Kenton was first introduced to mountaineering when he read about Hillary and Norgay’s 1953 ascent of Mount Everest. An obsession with rock climbing developed at university and, on graduating, Kenton moved to Sheffield to pursue this further.
In 1996 he suffered a fall from a rock face and shattered both heel bones. A year of surgery and therapy saw him become determined to regain his climbing form and he joined the British Mountain Guides scheme.
Since then, Kenton hasn’t looked back. He climbed extensively all over the world – establishing new routes and first ascents on peaks in Alaska, France, and India. In 2003, he was nominated for a Piolet d’Or award (the equivalent of the Oscars for mountaineers) for a route of Annapurna III.
Kenton lives in Gloucester with his wife Jazz and children Saffron and Willoughby.
The core of Kenton’s mantra centres on the inspiration to achieve, and to summit. In everything Kenton has ever done he has always attempted to push himself to the very limits of what can be realised. From climbing Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse – the peaks make up the Everest horseshoe – in one single continuous climb, to his 16 successful ascents of Everest, Kenton has always strived to place himself at the unique nexus where the rock runs out and all that’s left ahead is boundless empty space. His motivation is relentless – he trains every day to fulfil his life’s potential in this way.
Kenton has always retained a love for the places around him and the people he’s met along the road. The friendships he’s formed with Sherpas and clients have lasted decades; he considers many now his closest friends. On Everest, a mountain so completely steeped in the history of such single-minded pursuit, the summit, Kenton has tried above all the else to gaze wider and find his place amongst the great valleys and amongst the mountain people - to reach out and connect with a world so immutably linked to the peak he loves.
Kenton Cools triumphant and inspiring mountaineering experience:
- First person in history to complete the ‘Everest Triple Crown’, the peaks of Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse in one continuous push from base camp.
- First European mountaineer to summit Mount Everest fifteen times.
- First non-Asian to summit Everest twice in one week.
- Selected to fulfil ‘The Olympic Games Pledge’ in 2012 (whereby a century-old promise 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).
- Only Briton to have ever skied down two 8,000m mountains.
- Nominated for the Piolet D’or (the climbing Oscars) for a route on Annapurna III.
Guiding experience:
- Guided Sir Ranulph Fiennes to the summit of Mount Everest and up the North Face of the Eiger (raising over £5m for Marie Curie Cancer Care and generating the most hits ever for their website).
- Guided Ben Fogle to the summit of Mount Everest.
- Guided Sam Branson as part of Virgin Strive Challenge.
- First British guide to successfully lead a client to the summit of k2.
- Successfully completed more than 44 expeditions.
Brand campaign experience:
- Proved 3G is on the summit of Mount Everest for Samsung and made the first 3G call and sent the first tweet from the summit of Mount Everest.
- In partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, launched the brand-new Defender with the launch video shot in Kazakhstan.
- Delivered a successful ‘highest beer in the world’ campaign with Heineken.
Press:
Kenton Cool has been seen on the BBC and in articles for various newspapers and magazines (including The Guardian, BBC News, Sky News, The Times, ITV News, The Telegraph, Independent, Financial Times, Mirror, The Gentleman’s Journal, Evening Standard, CNN, Sidetracked, Escapism Magazine, Country Life Magazine, Evening Standard, and Adventure Magazine). For links relating to these press features, please follow the link below:
https://www.kentoncool.com/press-coverage/
for all information regarding Kenton Cool and his extraordinary career so far and to keep up to date with all upcoming projects, please visit www.kentoncool.com
Kenton Cool – Everest: The Untold Story comes to Theatr Brycheiniog on Wednesday 21st June at 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm). For further information and to book tickets, please contact a member of Theatr Brycheiniog’s Visitor Experience Team where they will be more than happy to help. You can also book online and keep up to date on news and all upcoming performances and events, 24/7, online at www.brycheiniog.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you soon!