Alan Hinkes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alan Hinkes
Occupation	Mountaineer
Date Of Birth	Apr 26, 1954(1954-04-26)
Age	70
Birthplace	Northallerton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northallerton
Horoscope	Taurus

Alan Hinkes Biography

Alan Hinkes is one of the most popular and richest Mountaineer who was born on April 26, 1954 in Northallerton, Northallerton, United Kingdom. Alan Hinkes OBE (born 26 April 1954) is an English Himalayan high- altitude mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. He is the first and remains the only, British mountaineer to claim all 14 Himalayan eight- thousanders (mountains above 8,000m in height), which he did on 30 May 2005.

Hawley does not use the public accounts of the non-French team members. Czech team member Josef Rakoncaj, photographed Hinkes on the summit plateau of Cho Oyu (Hinkes with his usual photo of his daughter held out), and states Hinkes summited in his book “Na hrotech zeměkoule” (co-authored with Miloš Jasanský, 1993). Italian team member Mauro Rossi lists the 1990 ascent of Cho Oyu in his public resume. Climbers with several Cho Oyu ascents, have disputed Hawley’s main Cho Oyu summit criteria, “Did you see Everest?” (which is obviously unhelpful in Hinkes’ case given the poor visibility), and the incorrect behaviours it is creating.

Hinkes took 26 attempts to climb the 14 eight-thousanders (not counting his ascent of Shishapangma Central (West) in 1990), giving a first attempt success rate of circa 54%. Hinkes spent 21 years on his “Challenge 8000”, starting with his ascent of Shishapangma in September 1987, and ending with his ascent of Kangchenjunga in May 2005. Hinkes is recorded as summiting Mount Everest on 19 May 1996.

Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in July 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He had to wait 10 days in agony before being rescued and brought to Islamabad for treatment. He has been referred to as the “chapati man” (even by himself) from this incident.

His 30 April 1990 ascent of Cho Oyu, which he completed alone in low visibility, is disputed by some observers. Cho Oyu has a broadly flat summit plateau with no cairn (the traditional prayer flags on Cho Oyu’s summit plateau do not mark the “technical” summit). The summit is a small unmarked “hump” (or “bump”) (which many Cho Oyu YouTube summit videos miss). While the height differential of this hump is small, Ralf Dujmovits, 3-time Cho Oyu summiter, notes that for a strong climber to get to the “hump” area can take another 30 minutes.

Alan Hinkes Net Worth

Alan Hinkes is one of the richest Mountaineer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan Hinkes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hawley’s Himalayan Database records 3,681 ascents of Cho Oyu of which 18 are “unrecognised” since 1960, despite the difficulty of finding Cho Oyu’s “technical” summit, and that older expeditions considered the summit plateau as sufficient. Chamoux’s 1990 Cho Oyu expedition comprise seven of these “unrecognised” ascents (including Alan Hinkes), while a German commercial trekking expedition, led by Günther Härter, who summited Cho Oyu just 19 days after Chamoux in 1990 (and also in very low visibility, as recorded by the Germans), comprise another six.

Hinkes logged the expedition’s 30 April 1990 Cho Oyu ascent in the 1991 American Alpine Journal (AAJ), as well as the expedition’s ascent of Shishapangma 12 days later on 12 May 1990, but he notes they climbed Shishapangma’s central (west) summit (the true summit is circa two hours further on). Hawley’s biography notes French expedition leader Benoît Chamoux: unhappy with this, as she did not credit Chamoux with Shishapangma either (Hawley had compelled the famous Himalayan mountaineer Ed Viesturs to re-climb Shishapangma for the same reason, which he did). Hinkes would not climb with Benoît Chamoux, or any of the French team members, again.

As an eight-thousander climber, Hinkes has encountered death on his own expeditions, and on neighbouring expeditions. Several of his climbing partners subsequently died on mountains. A particular death that Hinkes notes was fellow U.K. climbing partner, Alison Hargreaves, who died on K2 in 1995, weeks after Hinkes had summited K2.

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In January 2006, after Kangchenjunga, Hinkes was awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year Honours List for his achievements in mountaineering. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the University of Sunderland in 1999, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York in 2007. He was awarded Yorkshire Man of the Year in 2005, and was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Northallerton in the same year.

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Alan Ranked on the list of most popular Mountaineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Alan Hinkes celebrates birthday on April 26 of every year.

Over the years, Hinkes has had public fall-outs with other chasers of the 14 eight-thousanders. Australian climber Andrew Lock (who completed all 14 in 2009), was critical of Hinkes on their successful 1998 ascent of Nanga Parbat. Spanish climber Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, (who died on Annapurna of pulmonary edema, after completing 12 eight thousanders without oxygen), alleges that Hinkes had left him to bleed to death in order to summit K2, which Hinkes countered was factually untrue (Hinkes abandoned his first K2 climb, despite nearing the summit, to successfully rescue a stricken Swedish climber).