Very excited to be gearing up my next major expedition, which will take place from December 2016 to March 2017. In conjunction with Neil Ward, with whom I climbed on a couple of 8000 metre peaks, Makalu and Shishapangma, I’ll…
Whew, finally a moment to sit still and make contact. The last 12 months has been hectic with keynote speaking engagements around the country, guiding, earthquakes in Nepal, charity work and of course some personal adventures. KEYNOTE SPEAKING 2015 was…
SUMMIT 8000 Thanks to everyone who came along to the Summit 8000 speaking tour. I hope you enjoyed it. The tour kept expanding and by the end of 2014 I’d been to every capital city in Australia except Darwin, plus…
There are currently no public presentations scheduled. Andrew Lock is the first and only Australian to summit all 14 of the world’s 8000m peaks. To celebrate the release of his thrilling new book SUMMIT 8000, Andrew will share a gripping…
Andrew was an Australia Day Ambassador for the fourth time in 2014, attending the Ulladulla/Mollymook events on the south coast of NSW, where he had the honour to assist in a citizenship ceremony, to judge a local musical talent competition…
In September 2013, Andrew hosted a table at the Australian Himalayan Foundation dinner in Sydney which raised over $80,000. In October 2013, he spent a few more days abseiling down the AMP building at Circular Key in Sydney for the…
2003 Andrew shared a permit with a number of friends for his climb on this mountain in the post monsoon of 2003. Although climbing independently of the others, who were supported by Sherpas and guides, Andrew quickly made his own…
1994 After his successful rescue of a Swedish climber from high on K2 in 1993, Andrew was invited to join a Swedish expedition to Broad Peak in the northern summer of 1994. An attempt on a new route on the…
Andrew’s ascent of two 8000 metre peaks in the space of just a week set new records in the field of high altitude mountaineering, all the more so given that one of the summits was a first Australian ascent. The…
