1993 – first expedition to the Himalayas. Kenton attempted the North Face of Shani, just north of Gilgit.

1995 – first trip to Nepal, climbing a new line on the North Face of Kusukm Kanguru.

1998 – travelled to Canada to learn how to ice climb, leading up to Grace VI ice.

2000 – expedition to India for the first ascent of Arwa Spire.

2002 – Kilimanjaro expedition filming for the Discovery Channel.

2003 – first ascent of Annapurna III, South West Ridge, Nepal. Nominated for the Piolet D’Or (climbing Oscars).

2004 – first Everest expedition, with a 100% success rate and all team members reaching the summit.

2005 – Kenton summits Everest despite being hit on the head by rockfall on summit day, later requiring stitches.

2006 – in October, Kenton became the first Brit to complete a ski descent of an 8,000 peak, on Cho Oyu in Nepal, the sixth highest mountain in the world.

2007 – achieves an Everest double summit and leads Sir Ranulph Fiennes up the North Face of the Eiger.

2008 – led Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ Everest expedition. Sadly, Sir Ranulph failed to summit.

2009 – successfully leads Sir Ranulph Fiennes to the summit of Everest, recorded for a BBC documentary.

2010 – makes the third ever ski descent of Manaslu in Nepal, the world’s eighth highest mountain. In doing so, Kenton became the only Brit to have skied multiple 8,000m peaks.

2011 – Kenton proves that 3G is now accessible on the summit of Mount Everest by calling his wife Jazz. He went on to enter the record books for sending the first and only tweet from the summit, making many lists as one of the most epic tweets of all time.

2012 – fulfilled the Samsung Olympic Games Pledge by taking the Olympic Gold Medal awarded to the 1922 Everest Expedition at the 1924 Winter Olympics by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, to the top of Mount Everest.

2013 – became the first person in history to complete the Everest Triple Crown – Everest (8,848m), Nuptse (7,861m) and Lhotse (8,516m) in a single climb.

2015 – Kenton spends the summer climbing in Bolivia with a client. Together they climb Pequeno Alpamayo (5,337m), Huayna Potosi (6,094m) and Illimani (6,462m).

2016 – successfully summits Everest for his 12th time in ‘the best weather conditions’. Kenton and his client were the first foreigners to summit the mountain after two years of no climbing following the earthquake.

2018 – Kenton guides British broadcaster, Ben Fogle, to the summit of Everest2019 – Kenton successfully climbs Everest for his 14th time, the most of any European mountaineer.

2020 – Kenton climbs Aconcagua in January just before the pandemic shuts down world travel.

2021 – summits Everest for his 15th time. He also becomes the first British guide to lead a client to the summit of K2.

2022 – Kenton achieves a non-sherpa record with his 16th summit of Mount Everest on 15th May 2022. He also summits Mount
Vinson in Antarctica this year, meaning he has climbed all ‘seven summits’ – the highest peak on each of the seven continents.

2023 – breaks his own record and climbs Everest for a 17th time.

2024 – Kenton successfully reaches the summit of Aconcagua in January 2024 and again in February 2024. He then summits Everest for the 18th time on 12th May 2024 in absolutely freezing conditions.

2025 (let’s wait a month and hopefully we can talk about summit 19…).

2026 – Kenton aims to climb Everest for his 20th time, joining only a handful of Sherpas to have reached the summit over 20 times. He is also planning an expedition to Aconcagua and possibly Pakistan…