Tim Macartney-Snape

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Macartney-Snape
Occupation	Mountaineer
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1956(1956-01-05)
Age	68
Country	Australia
Birth City	Tanganyika
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tim Macartney-Snape Biography

Tim Macartney-Snape is one of the most popular and richest Mountaineer who was born on January 5, 1956 in Tanganyika, Australia. Tim Macartney-Snape, AM (born on January 5, 1956) is an author and mountaineer. Macartney-Snape, on the 3rd October 1984, along with Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to summit of Mount Everest. They made it to the top, by climbing with no oxygen supplementation using a route that was new along the North Face (North Face to Norton Couloir). In 1990, Macartney-Snape was one of the few people to climb and walk from sea level up to the top at the top of Mount Everest. Macartney-Snape also co-founded of the Sea to Summit range of equipment for outdoor and adventure, as well as accessories, as well as a guidebook to the adventure traveling business World Expeditions and a founding director and patron of the World Transformation Movement.

In 1983, Macartney-Snape conceived and took part in the expedition of Annapurna II (7,937 m) and reached the summit on an ascent on the South Spur for the first time. The descent was slowed by an ice storm and the group did not have enough food for the final five days. They were reported missing , and when they returned, they were given a lot of publicity.

In 1986 fellow Australian Greg Child was organising an international team to attempt Gasherbrum IV (7980m). The mountain’s first and only ascent had been in 1957 by an elite team of Italian alpinists, as its sheer faces and rocky ridges had since thwarted many attempts. The climb up the previously-unclimbed north west ridge proved difficult; it was one “that challenged even Macartney- Snape’s legendary strength and endurance at high altitude.” Macartney-Snape took a film movie camera on the climb, as he had done on Everest, and the subsequent film, was given the title Harder than Everest. After a night without sleeping bags or stove at just under 8000m Child, Macartney-Snape and American Tom Hargis had finally made the coveted second ascent of Gasherbrum IV.

In 1987 the Australian Geographic Society, founded by businessman Dick Smith, arranged a function at which Macartney-Snape made a speech. Griffith attended the function and met with Macartney-Snape. Several months later they met again where Griffith discussed his ideas with Macartney-Snape and gave him a draft copy of his first book Free: The End of the Human Condition. Macartney-Snape said that the explanation given in the book for human nature “made total sense”. Macartney-Snape subsequently became involved in the World Transformation Movement and in 1990 on Everest’s summit filmed himself saying “It is time to climb the mountains of the mind”. When Griffith published Beyond the Human Condition in 1991 it featured a foreword written by Macartney-Snape.

In 1981, Macartney-Snape attempted to climb Ama Dablam (6812m) via the north ridge in the help of a small, lightweight group. Macartney-Snape is said to have mentioned this climb as an inspiration to climb Everest: “partway up the North ridge of Ama Dablam he looked over and could see Mt Everest and wondered what it might be like to experience the highest point of the world via a new route in good style”.

Tim Macartney-Snape Net Worth

Tim Macartney-Snape is one of the richest Mountaineer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Macartney-Snape 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His birthplace was in Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania) in Tanzania, where he resided on an agricultural farm with and his Australian father as well as his Irish mother. The family relocated to Australia to a farm in northern Victoria. He was a student at Geelong Grammar School and spent an entire year at the school’s outdoor educational campus Timbertop. Macartney-Snape attended The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra where he was a member of the ANU Mountaineering Club (ANUMC) and graduated with an BSc.

In 1978, Macartney Snape traveled in 1978 to India in the context of ANUMC’s trip up Dunagiri (7,066 metres). In the midst of a long period of poor weather, Macartney-Snape and Lincoln Hall radioed to the expedition leader, Peter Cocker, that they were planning to make a third attempt at East Dunagiri. Cocker was the only person at the time in Col Camp on Dunagiri, encouraged them to instead try a last attempt at Dunagiri. If they were able to force an avenue that led to the Summit Ridge, they could go back at Col Camp and wait for assistance to complete their summit attempts. Maccartney- Snape as well as Hall were in agreement, and returned to Dunagiri after which they pushed across towards their destination, the Summit Ridge. The weather improved and, after spending the entire night in the open, with no sleeping bags, Macartney-Snape and Hall attempted a daring climb to reach the top of Dunagiri. They succeeded and then slid down into the midst of an electric storm. Maccartney and Snape made it to Col Camp at 10.30 p.m. But, Hall spent another night at the top of the mountain. The next night, Cocker ascended the fixed ropes to join him, and later accompanied Maccartney-Snape on his return towards Col Camp. It was the first significant Himalayan summit that was climbed by an Australian.

In July 1984, a small Australian team headed to the north side of Mt Everest where they prepared and ascended an unclimbed route on the north face, climbing without bottled oxygen in a lightweight alpine style and without the help of high altitude porters. On 3 October 1984, climbing in cross-country ski boots as substitutes for his high altitude climbing boots that had been lost in an earlier avalanche, Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer became the first Australians to climb Mt Everest, an achievement for which they were both awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to mountaineering. Mt Everest historian, Walt Unsworth, described it as “one of the greatest climbs ever done on the mountain” and American climber, John Roskelley, said, “the Aussies pulled off the coup of the century”. The expedition was sponsored by Channel 9 who produced a television documentary about the expedition.

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In 1995 Macartney-Snape, Stephen Venables, John Roskelley, Jim Wickwire and Charlie Porter attempted a new route on Mt Sarmiento, on the western shores of Tierra del Fuego, where Macartney-Snape, Roskelley and Venables summited via new route up the southwest face of the western summit.

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Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Mountaineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Tim Macartney-Snape celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.

Macartney-Snape is a founding director and patron of the World Transformation Movement (WTM), formerly known as the Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA), an organisation dedicated to understanding and ameliorating the human condition. In particular the World Transformation Movement supports the work of Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith.