Ferran Latorre

Ferran Latorre Torres is a Spanish mountaineer and adventurer, born on 18 October 1970, who has summited all fourteen eight-thousanders. At fourteen he began training with the Hiking Club of Catalonia, where he learned mountaineering and climbing, and his enthusiasm took him to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Himalayas; at 21 he climbed Shishapangma. Since 1998 he has taken part in the Spanish television programme Al filo de lo imposible, which documented his climbs in places such as Kyrgyzstan, Greenland, South Georgia, Antarctica and the Himalayas. In 2017 he became the sixth Spanish mountaineer, and the first Catalan, to climb all fourteen after reaching the summit of Mount Everest.