In August 2024, British mountaineering stalwart Sir Chris Bonington turned 90. He celebrated in typical style with his family and friends by hiking up to the local summit of High Pike, an unassuming ...

In his recent autobiography, Chris Bonington — described as “the David Attenborough of mountaineering” — writes about “the joy, indeed­, euphoria” of climbing this route in 1951, as a schoolboy ...

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MOUNTAINEER Sir Chris Bonington will share exhilarating stories from a lifetime spent conquering the seemingly impossible at a popular adventure festival this spring. Britain’s best-known climber is ...

In the fall of 2002, a party of six Americans and a Swede set out with skis to attempt the 22,950-foot Sepu Kangri, an unclimbed Himalayan peak dubbed “Tibet’s Secret Mountain” by the famous British ...

A renowned mountaineer learns to sail and a world-famous sailor learns to climb in this splendid collaboration by the two British adventurers. Meeting on a TV show, climber Bonington (The Everest ...

The son of legendary British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington has launched a tour operator offering treks that follow in his father’s footsteps and others that even include the great adventurer.

Were Sir Chris Bonington not sitting at his kitchen table eating a mini Magnum, he would be on his way to the climbing wall as part of his rehabilitation after a hip replacement. He was there two days ...

Joe Bonington is the founder of Joe’s Basecamp, a highly specialised training gym on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The master adventure fitness trainer and son of legendary British mountaineer Sir Chris ...

The docu-film Chris Bonington - Life and Climbs (2015, 22 minutes) is now online. Directed by Vinicio Stefanello for the Municipality of Courmayeur, in this film great British mountaineer tells his ...