Will Gadd
“We all are athletes, I’am a multisport-mountain athlete”
I grew up in a family that hiked, climbed and went into the mountains whenever they could. Some of my earliest memories are of long backpacking trips, wind-blown summits and surviving winter skip trips. The first sport I really got into on my was caving. When I was 14 I started kayaking. At 16 I bought my first climbing rope, and did my first new rock route. At 25 I first flew a paraglider. At 41 my daughter came into the world. She’s already doing all the stuff I did as a kid, and she’s an athlete too.
Tim Emmett
He grew up in a family that hiked, climbed and went into the mountains whenever they could. Some of his earliest memories are of long backpacking trips, wind-blown summits and surviving winter ski trips. The first sport he really got into was caving. When he was 14 he started kayaking. At 16 he bought his first climbing rope and did his first new rock route. At 25 he first flew a paraglider. At 41 his daughter was born.
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Top extreme sports athlete, specialising in para-alpinism; climbing a big mountain with a B.A.S.E.-jumping rig before jumping off into freefall. Also a world leader in both rock and ice-climbing, and a pioneer of Deep Water Soloing (free climbing a cliff above water). An inspirational and energy-charged speaker.
