Alan Hinkes

Alan Hinkes (born 1954) is an English Himalayan high-altitude mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire, the first British mountaineer to claim all 14 Himalayan eight-thousanders, a feat he completed on Kangchenjunga on 30 May 2005 aged 50. He was only the 13th person to claim it, after Reinhold Messner first achieved it in 1986, and it took him 26 attempts over 21 years of his Challenge 8000, which began with Shishapangma in 1987. His 1990 solo ascent of Cho Oyu in low visibility is disputed by the Himalayan chronicler Elizabeth Hawley's database. He was awarded an OBE in 2006 and an honorary doctorate by the University of York in 2007, published the photographic book 8000 Metres, and is the subject of a 2017 documentary by Terry Abraham.