Jake Norton
Jake Norton is a world-renowned climber, photographer, filmmaker, philanthropist, and inspirational speaker. Based in Evergreen, Colorado, Jake's worldwide adventures have taken him to the summit of Mount Everest (three times) and on expeditions on all seven continents.
His photography has appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Forbes, and Oprah, while his film footage has been used in documentaries and television series.
As a speaker, Jake has inspired tens of thousands of people and companies worldwide to reach new summits and enjoy their climb to the top. He is also a sought-after trainer, conducting highly-interactive full and half day leadership and teamwork workshops for corporations and associations.
Jake is also an active philanthropist. He is an Ambassador – along with Reinhold Messner – for the United Nations' Mountain Partnership, and in this role he advocates on behalf of mountains, mountain environments, and mountain peoples. In 2011, he founded Challenge21, a multi-year climbing and fundraising project dedicated to the global water crisis, and its solutions. To date, Jake has launched four Challenge21 expeditions, shared his message with over one million people worldwide, and raised some $300,000 for his non-profit partner, Water For People.
Please read on, and go Higher than Everest with Jake Norton and MountainWorld Productions.
Jake Norton is a world-renowned climber, photographer, filmmaker, philanthropist, and inspirational speaker. Based in Evergreen, Colorado, Jake's worldwide adventures have taken him to the summit of Mount Everest (three times) and on expeditions on all seven continents.
His photography has appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Forbes, and Oprah, while his film footage has been used in documentaries and television series.
As a speaker, Jake has inspired tens of thousands of people and companies worldwide to reach new summits and enjoy their climb to the top. He is also a sought-after trainer, conducting highly-interactive full and half day leadership and teamwork workshops for corporations and associations.
Jake is also an active philanthropist. He is an Ambassador – along with Reinhold Messner – for the United Nations' Mountain Partnership, and in this role he advocates on behalf of mountains, mountain environments, and mountain peoples. In 2011, he founded Challenge21, a multi-year climbing and fundraising project dedicated to the global water crisis, and its solutions. To date, Jake has launched four Challenge21 expeditions, shared his message with over one million people worldwide, and raised some $300,000 for his non-profit partner, Water For People.
Please read on, and go Higher than Everest with Jake Norton and MountainWorld Productions.
Getting FITT: Climb Your Everest…and Enjoy the Journey
- Would you like to motivate your employees or members to reach new heights in their careers?
- What if they left your event feeling refreshed, excited, and inspired to reach the peak of excellence in all that they do?
- And, what if you could do all of this with an enthralling, multi-media presentation which will make them laugh, cry, and learn lessons from the summit of Mount Everest - and enable them to apply these lessons to their daily lives?
Higher Than Everest
Why?
Why do we climb mountains?
Why do we set big goals in our lives?
Why do we strive to go beyond the ordinary, to reach for the extraordinary in life and work?
This is a question Jake Norton has wrestled with throughout his climbing life. As the author Simon Sinek notes: Most of us know what we do, some of us know how we do it, but very few of us know why we do what we do.
In this inspiring...
Lost on Everest
Sometime during the Spring of 1924, British climber George Leigh Mallory wrote a letter to his friend Geoffrey Keynes saying: "This is going to be more like war than mountaineering. I don't expect to come back."
He was speaking of his upcoming assault on Mount Everest, and was very accurate in his surmising.
Late in the day on June 8, 1924, Mallory and his climbing companion, 22 year old Andrew Comyn Irvine, were last seen high on Everest's Northeast Ridge by teammate...
Ethics of Everest
On May 15, 2006, Englishman David Sharp sat huddled in a cave at nearly 28,000 feet on Everest's Northeast Ridge. He had reached the top the night before, but never made the full return journey. David was severely hypothermic and frostbitten, barely clinging to life. But, he was still alive, shivering away in a cave next to "Mr. Green Boots", and Indian national who died in 1998.
Some 30 climbers would pass by David that morning, moving upward toward the summit. Some checked on him...
