Tim Macartney-Snape
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born |
5 January 1956 Tanganyika |
| Climbing career | |
| Type of climber | Mountaineer |
| Known for | Founder of Sea to Summit |
| First ascents | Mount Everest via the North Face to Norton Couloir route |
| Updated on 17 March 2013. | |
Tim Macartney-Snape AM OAM (born 5 January 1956) is a mountaineer and author. On 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They reached the summit, climbing without supplementary oxygen, via a new route on the North Face (North Face to Norton Couloir). In 1990, Macartney-Snape became the first person to walk and climb from sea level to the top of Mount Everest. Macartney-Snape is also the founder of the Sea to Summit range of outdoor and adventure gear and accessories, a guide for adventure travel company World Expeditions and a founding director and patron of the World Transformation Movement.
He was born in Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania), where he lived on a farm with his Australian father and Irish mother. In 1967, the family moved to Australia to a farm in north eastern Victoria. He attended Geelong Grammar School and spent a year at the school's outdoor education campus Timbertop. Tim studied at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra where he joined the ANU Mountaineering Club (ANUMC) and obtained a BSc in between bushwalking, rock climbing and backcountry skiing and kayaking trips.
Having rock climbed all over Australia, his first mountaineering experience was two seasons in New Zealand's Southern Alps.
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