The Three Peaks Yacht Race is based on an idea by the mountaineer of what nationality?
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Three Peaks yacht race The Three Peaks Yacht Race is held each year in June in the United Kingdom since 1977. It is based on an idea of Bill Tilman, who had advocated a Three Peaks Challenge route without using motorised transport. His doctor, Rob Haworth, with colleague Merfyn Jones developed the idea into a race.
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Bill Tilman Major Harold William "Bill" Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, (14 February 1898–1977) was an English mountaineer and explorer, renowned for his Himalayan climbs and sailing voyages.
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Eduard Koblmueller Eduard „Edi“ Koblmueller (German: Koblmüller) (April 10, 1946 – April 16, 2015) was an Austrian mountaineer.
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Renan Ozturk Renan Ozturk (born April 7, 1980) is a German-born, American rock climber, free soloist, mountaineer, and visual artist, best known for his first ascent of the Shark's Fin route on Meru Peak in the Himalaya with Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker in 2011. The successful 2011 ascent of the Shark's Fin on Meru and a prior attempt in 2008 were detailed in the 2015 documentary film "Meru"
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Howard Rice Howard Rice sailed and paddled a sailing canoe solo around Cape Horn, Chile considered by many sailors to be the Mount Everest of sailing challenges. Articles about his expedition have appeared in "Outside Magazine", "Sports Illustrated", "Yachting Magazine", many international newspapers and is referenced in numerous books on the subject of ocean kayaking and canoe sailing.
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Veikka Gustafsson Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson (born 14 January 1968) is a Finnish mountaineer who has ascended all 14 eight-thousanders in the world without the use of supplemental oxygen. In 1993 Gustafsson became the first Finnish person to have reached the top of Mount Everest. In the spring of 1997, he also became the first Finn to have reached the summit without the use of bottled oxygen.
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Stefan Winter Stefan Winter (born 16 March 1968) is a German ski mountaineer, former coach of the German ski mountaineering team and alpine sports author.
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Leland Curtis Leland S. Curtis (7 August 1897 – 17 March 1989) was an American artist, mountaineer, skier, environmentalist and Antarctic explorer.
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Conrad Humphreys Conrad David Humphreys (born 13 February 1973) is a professional yachtsman, adventurer and motivational speaker. Conrad has competed in three round the world races, two fully crewed (Whitbread Round the World Race 1993-94 and the BT Global Challenge 2000-01 and one single handed (Vendee Globe 2004-5) He has also competed in the Transat (2004), the Route du Rhum (2002, 2014), the Transat Jacques Vabre (2003), the Archipelago Raid (2008-2011) the Extreme Sailing Series (2005-7) and La Solitaire du Figaro (2011).
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Sylvain Saudan Sylvain Saudan (born on 23 September 1936 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible." He is noted for skiing down large and steep mountains, including those in the Himalayas. In 2007 he survived a helicopter crash in Kashmir.
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Sandy Hill (mountaineer) Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955, formerly Sandra Hill Pittman) is a socialite, mountaineer, author, and former fashion editor. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mt. Everest summit and the second American woman to ascend all of the Seven Summits.
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John Morris (anthropologist) Major Charles John Morris, CBE (1895–1980), known as John, was a British mountaineer, anthropologist and journalist, and controller of BBC Radio's Third Programme.
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Cesare Maestri Cesare Maestri (born 2 October 1929) is an Italian mountaineer and writer.
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Jean-Marc Boivin Jean-Marc Boivin (6 April 1951 – 17 February 1990) was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, hang glider and paraglider pilot, speleologist, BASE jumper, award-winning film maker, and author. The holder of several altitude records for hang gliding and paragliding, the creator of numerous first ascents and first ski descents in the Alps, a member of the team that broke the record for a sub-glacial dive and the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest, Boivin was a pioneer of extreme sports. He died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world.
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A. W. Andrews Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player.
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Three Peaks Challenge The Three Peaks Challenge is a mountain running trail of some 50km first done by Carl Wilhelm Schneeberger in March 1897. The challenge comprises ascending the three major peaks above Cape Town, namely Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and Lion's Head. Schneeberger completed the course in 9h5m, not counting his rest stops at the old "Johannesburg Hotel" in Long Street after each peak. On the centenary of Schneeberger's feat, Don Hartley and a group of 13 runners took on the challenge on 13 September 1987. In 2001 Chad Ulansky set a new record at 5h27m29s, a record which stood until 2010 when Andrew Hagen posted a time of 5h23m20sec. One year later, newcomer Andre Calitz beat Hagen, bettering the record by nearly 16 minutes, and set an astonishing new mark in 2012 with a winning time of 4h50m21s.
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Kim Carrigan Kim Carrigan (born in 1958) was Australia's leading exponent of rockclimbing during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carrigan put up several hundred new routes on crags around the country, in particular at Mount Arapiles, Victoria, where he was based for several years. He repeatedly extended the limits of Australian climbing, initially by free climbing an old aid route "Procul Harum" to establish the first Australian climb graded 26 under the Ewbank grading system. He went on to climb the first grade 27 ("Denim"), grade 28 ("Yesterday"), grade 29 ("India") and grade 30 ("Masada"). All of these climbs are located at Mount Arapiles. Later he moved to Switzerland and became a triathlete. In the Swiss alps he did some difficult first ascents with the famous Swiss climber , e.g. "Truth of human desire" at the Titlis.
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Michael Moniz Michael Moniz of Boulder, Colorado, is an American business executive and high-altitude mountaineer.
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John Pascoe (mountaineer) John Dobrée Pascoe (26 September 1908 – 20 October 1972) was a New Zealand mountaineer, photographer, writer, editor, historian and archivist.
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Brad Butterworth Bradley William Butterworth, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OBE', '4': "} (born 1959), is a yachtsman known for the role he played as tactician and skipper in the America's Cup for Team New Zealand and the Alinghi team of Switzerland.
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Jaime Viñals Jaime Viñals Massanet (born November 17, 1966) is a Guatemalan mountaineer, the first person from Central America and Caribbean region ever to climb the Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, after being reached the summit together with the american Andy Lakpass and the danish Asmus Noreslet on a expedition from New Zealand organized by Russell Brice, since then, is part of the select few to have reached the Seven Summits, the highest mountains of each of the seven (sub-)continents. also he has finished to climb the Seven Islands of the World.
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Graham Bell (skier) Graham Bell (born 4 January 1966) is a former Olympic skier who is also a TV presenter, adventurer and journalist. He has presented several BBC TV shows with Ed Leigh including "High Altitude" in 2009 and "Ski Sunday" more recently. Highlights included Graham tackling the Arctic Circle Race; a 160 mi cross-country skiing race in Greenland; and surviving a night in a snow-hole without food, water or a sleeping bag. He set a personal best top speed on skis of 121 mph .