First climber to register a Scottish winter grade VI ice route
First ascents
Linden (E6 6b, 1976)
The Shield Direct (VII/7, 1979)
Golden Pillar Spantik (ED+, 1987)
N Pillar Taweche (ED+, 1995)
NW Arwa Tower (ED+, 1999)
NW Singuniang (ED+, 2002)
Prow of Shiva (ED+, 2012)
N Gave Ding (ED+, 2016)
Updated on 5 August 2023.
Michael Fowler (born 1956) is a British rock climber, ice climber, mountaineer and climbing author. He is internationally noted for his alpine climbing and was awarded the Piolet d'Or three times, with Paul Ramsden, in 2003, 2013, and 2016, for alpine-style first ascents of faces in the Himalayas. Fowler was one of the first British rock climbers to free an E6-graded traditional rock climbing route (Linden, 1976), and the first ice climber to free a consensus grade VI mixed Scottish winter route (The Shield Direct, 1979).
In the British Isles, Fowler is also noted for unusual and esoteric climbing including crumbling sea cliffs and sea stacks and using mixed climbing techniques on chalk cliffs. In 1989, Fowler was voted the "Mountaineers' Mountaineer" in a poll of his peers by The Observer. Fowler stayed as an amateur climber and maintained a full-time job in the HM Revenue and Customs for almost forty years. Many of Fowler's awards were earned climbing Himalayan peaks during his annual holiday leave from the Revenue.
^"Mick Fowler". The Himalayan Club. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
ISBN 1-898573-67-0. Fowler, Mick (2005). On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya. Baton Wicks. ISBN 1-898573-58-1. Fowler, Mick (1995)....
team works with Berghaus-sponsored athletes, such as Leo Houlding and MickFowler, to produce kit for specific challenges, which means extended design...
who were followed by and Reinhold Messner and Doug Scott, and later by MickFowler and Marko Prezelj, and Ueli Steck. Since the 1980s, the development of...
Messner and Doug Scott, and latterly by alpinists such as Ueli Steck, MickFowler, Paul Ramsden, and Marko Prezelj. The annual Piolets d'Or are awarded...
and Tackhead. In 1988 Fowler found himself touring with Steven Seagal. In 1985, Fowler was hired to record backing vocals on Mick Jagger's first solo album...
sport in Scotland largely ceased until the late 1980s and the arrival of MickFowler on the scene. Cleare (1974) defined stacks from a rock-climbing perspective...
expedition and the second by a British team, which included Caradog Jones and MickFowler. While nearby Ladyfinger Peak has little prominence above the saddle...
with MickFowler 1986 - Ushba - West Face Direct 1986 - The Icicle Factory and White Wedding Cuillin, Isle of Skye - First ascents, with MickFowler 1985...
addition, there was as an evening with the Alpine Club and its president MickFowler. The temporary Keswick Mountain Festival Village is sited on the shores...
diverse range of first ascents including with MickFowler on Hunza Peak in Pakistan (1991), with Fowler again with Yes, Please (E3 6a) on Yesnaby Castle...
north face of Changabang, in the Garhwal Himalaya, with Brendan Murphy, MickFowler and Steve Sustad. It won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature...
Rabald Fowler, commonly known as "Mick" returned from a period working at sea, he found that his rented house boarded up. Repossessing his home, Fowler fought...
British ascent of the Jungfrau Charlie Fowler (1954–2006) US, free soloist and high-altitude mountaineer MickFowler (born 1956) UK, leading traditional...
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South Ridge. 1997 North Face, Andy Cave and Brendan Murphy (summit) with MickFowler and Steve Sustad (to summit ridge) made the first ascent of the North...
band formed in London in 1962, their first stable line-up included vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist and vocalist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian...
face, leading to the northeast ridge. An attempt by a two-man team of MickFowler and Paul Ramsden in 2008. An attempt by a three-man team of Nigel Cleaver...
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