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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Greg Mortimer
- Greg Mortimer (born 10 December 1952) is an Australian mountaineer.
- Mortimer is most well known as one of the first two Australians (with Tim Macartney-Snape) to successfully climb Mount Everest, on 3 October 1984.
- Their ascent, without supplemental oxygen, was the first via the North face and Great Couloir and is one of the routes that have not been repeated often.Mortimer was born in 1952 in Sydney, New South Wales and grew up around Gladesville and Bondi Junction.
- He graduated in geochemistry and geology at Macquarie University, Sydney.
- He then worked as a survival-training instructor and as a Scientific Affairs Adviser for the New Zealand Antarctic Division.Mortimer was the first to climb Annapurna II by its south face (1983), the first Australian to climb Antarctica's highest peak, Vinson Massif (1988), the first to climb Mount Minto in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica (1988) and, with Greg Child, were the first Australians to climb K2 (1990). Since 1992 he has led over 80 expeditions to Antarctica, many on a commercial basis with his company Aurora Expeditions.In 1994, Mortimer summited Chongtar which was then the world's highest unclimbed peak. In 2018, Aurora Expeditions (the expedition company founded by Mortimer in 1991 and subsequently sold) announced their newbuild expedition vessel would be named in his honour.
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