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Kenton Cool (born July 30, 1973) is an English mountaineer, alpinist and IFMGA mountain guide. He is one of Britain's leading alpine climbers and he has successfully climbed Mount Everest eleven times, including leading Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 2008 and 2009 Expeditions. He has completed 21 successful expeditions in the Greater Ranges. In 2013, he and his climbing partner became the first people to traverse Nuptse, Everest and Lhotse in a single expedition without returning to base camp.〔(Outside Magazine - The Full Story of Kenton Cool and the Triple Crown - By: Alan Arnette - May 29, 2013 )〕 ==Biography== Kenton Cool graduated from the University of Leeds in 1994 after studying BSc Geological Sciences.〔(University of Leeds Alumni – Sport )〕 Cool was first introduced to mountaineering at Scouts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.trekandmountain.com/interview-kenton-cool/ )〕 An obsession with rock climbing developed at Leeds University and, on graduating, he moved to Sheffield to pursue this further. In 1996, he suffered a fall from a rock face and shattered both heel bones. A year of surgery and therapy saw him become determined to regain his climbing form and he joined the British Association of Mountain Guides scheme. Cool was born in Slough, Berkshire his family surname was originally Kuhle and was changed by his half German grandfather due to Second World War. Brought up in Uxbridge , London , his father was photographer and mother was florist. Cool married in 2008 and splits his time between the small village of Mont-Saxonnex in the French Alps where he spends his time working as a director of Dream Guides, a Chamonix-based mountain and ski guiding company, and the village of Quenington in Gloucestershire in the UK.〔 A leading Alpine climber, he operates in the Alps and Greater Ranges of the Himalaya as a fully qualified IFMGA (UIAGM) Guide and Expedition Leader.〔 Regarding the danger of mountaineering and the 37 friends he has lost in the sport he has said: "It's completely unstylish to get stuffed in the mountains...I want to die with my feet up in front of the fire drinking a glass of red wine aged about 95".〔 In 2003, Cool was nominated alongside climbing partners for the Piolet d'Or award for a route on Annapurna III. In 2012 he made good on an 88-year-old Olympic pledge by taking one of the 1924 Olympic Gold Medal awarded to the 1922 British Everest Expedition (awarded for "Outstanding feats of human endeavour") to the summit of Everest. This prompted Lord Coe to personally thank Cool and his team for helping "kick start the 2012 Olympic Games". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenton Cool」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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