Kenton Cool
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30 July 1973 Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
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Mountain guide Motivational speaker |
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| Website | kentoncool |
Kenton Cool (born 30 July 1973) is an English mountaineer, alpinist and IFMGA mountain guide. He is one of Britain's leading alpine climbers and he has successfully climbed Mount Everest twelve times, including leading Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 2008 and 2009 Expeditions. He has completed 21 successful expeditions in the Greater Ranges. In 2011 he successfully made the first 3G call at the summit of Mount Everest and the first social media update at the summit of Mount Everest. In 2013, he and his climbing partner became the first people to traverse Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse in a single expedition without returning to base camp.
Cool was born in Slough, Berkshire in 1973. His family surname was originally Kuhle and was changed during the Second World War, by his half German grandfather. His father was a photographer and mother a florist and the family home was near to Uxbridge, in Middlesex. Kenton Cool was schooled at John Hampden Grammar School in High Wycombe, and later obtained a place at University. Kenton Cool graduated from the University of Leeds in 1994 after studying BSc Geological Sciences. Cool was first introduced to mountaineering at Scouts. An obsession with rock climbing developed at Leeds University and, on graduating, he 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 Association of Mountain Guides scheme.
Cool married in 2008 and splits his time between the small village of Mont-Saxonnex in the French Alps where he spends his time working as a director of Dream Guides, a Chamonix-based mountain and ski guiding company, and the village of Quenington in Gloucestershire in the UK. A leading Alpine climber, he operates in the Alps and Greater Ranges of the Himalayas as a fully qualified IFMGA (UIAGM) Guide and Expedition Leader.
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