Michael Fowler (born 1956) is a British mountaineer and author.
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Mick Fowler
Born
Michael Fowler 1956 (age65–66) London, England
Nationality
British
He was voted the "Mountaineers' Mountaineer" in a poll in The Observer[citation needed], and with Paul Ramsden, won the 2002 Piolet d'Or and Golden Ice Axe awards for their ascent of 6,250-metre (20,510ft)Mount Siguniang in the Qionglai Mountains in the Sichuan Province of China.[citation needed] In 2012, he was awarded the King Albert award for his "outstanding contribution to mountaineering", and in 2013, he and Paul Ramsden became the first pair to win a Piolet d'Or award twice after their ascent of the 6,142-metre (20,151ft) Prow of Shiva in the Indian Himalayas. Paul Ramsden and Mick Fowler received the Piolet d’Or for a third time in 2016 for their ascent of Gave Ding, 6,571-meter (Nepal).
Climbing history
He was introduced to rock climbing and mountaineering as a teenager by his widowed father George, who took him to the Alps in 1969 at the age of 13. In the 1980s, he was regarded as the driving force behind a group of London climbers who would regularly drive to the north of Scotland, a round trip of 1,300 miles, for winter weekends. His record was 11 consecutive weekends.
He was one of the first people to rock climb at the E6 grade of difficulty (Linden Route, Eliminates Wall, Curbar Edge; 1976) and winter climb at grade VI (Central Icefall Direct, Craig y Rhaeadr, Llanberis Pass; 1979). He is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of adventurous rock climbs on sea cliffs and sea stacks, and for the use of ice-climbing techniques on the soft chalk cliffs of England's southeast coast.
Career, writing, and family
Fowler served as president of the Alpine Club from 2011 to 2013 after winning the first contested election in the organisation's 150-year history.
Since 1977, he has worked full-time for HM Revenue and Customs, where he holds the position of Assistant Director, Shares and Assets Valuation. Since 2008, he has also worked with the outdoor company Berghaus.[1]
Fowler has written two volumes of memoirs, both of which were shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. He won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival and the best book prize at the Bormio Mountain Festival (Italy) in 2012.[citation needed]
He currently lives in Derbyshire with his wife Nicola and their two children, Tessa and Alec.
Notable ascents
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Rock and ice climbs (first ascents)
Conventional rock climbs:
Linden (E6) in 1976 at Curbar Edge in Derbyshire (as one of the first E6 climbs in Britain this received extensive press coverage)
Stone (E5) in the Hebrides
Ludwig (E6) at Gogarth
Stairway to Heaven (E5) on Skye
Caveman (E6) in Devon
Sea cliffs:
Henna (450ft, XS) and Bukator (600ft, XS) on the North Devon/Cornwall coast
Monster Crack (500ft, XS) (first free ascent of the chalk cliffs at Beachy Head)
1991 Hunza Peak and Bublimoting (Pakistan) with Caradog Jones
1993 NW Face Kishtwar Kailash (India) with Steve Sustad
1995 Taweche (Nepal), NE Pillar, with Pat Littlejohn
1997 North Face of Changabang in the Garhwal Himalaya of Uttarakhand, India. First Ascent with Brendan Murphy and Andy Cave (summit); with Fowler and Steve Sustad climbing to the summit ridge. Murphy was hit by an avalanche and swept off the face to his death on the descent.
1999 Arwa Tower (India), NW Face, with Steve Sustad
2000 Mount Kennedy (Yukon), N Buttress, with Andy Cave
Fowler, Mick (1995). Vertical Pleasure: The Secret Life of a Tax Man. London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN0-340-62321-7.
Fowler, Mick (2006). Vertical Pleasure: Early Climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya (reprinted.). Baton Wicks Publications. ISBN1-898573-67-0.
Fowler, Mick (1998). "A Touch Too Much?". American Alpine Journal. Golden, CO, USA: American Alpine Club. 40 (72): 53–68. ISBN0-930410-78-5.
Fowler, Mick (2005). On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya. Baton Wicks Publications. ISBN1-898573-58-1.
Fowler, Mick (2018). No Easy Way: The challenging life of the climbing taxman. Vertebrate Publishing. ISBN978-1-911342-75-5.
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