Carlos Soria Fontán

Carlos Soria Fontán (born 1939 in Ávila) is a Spanish mountaineer who set out to become the oldest person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders. He took up mountaineering at 14 in the Sierra de Guadarrama, joined the first Spanish expeditions to Elbrus in 1968 and Denali in 1971, and reached his first eight-thousander, Nanga Parbat, in 1990. He is the oldest person to have climbed K2, at 65, and Broad Peak, Makalu, Gasherbrum I, Kangchenjunga and Annapurna, and the oldest to climb an eight-thousander at all, Manaslu at 86 in 2025, and the only climber to have ascended ten peaks above 8,000 metres after turning 60. He completed the Seven Summits after the age of 70, and received the Silver Medal for Sporting Achievement from Spain's High Council of Sports in 2011.