David has explored frozen summits everywhere from Pakistan to Patagonia but his greatest passion is for the harsh and beautiful high-altitude terrain of 8000m mountains. He has already conquered five of the 14 different 8000m peaks on Earth, reaching the summits of Gasherbrum II (8035m), Broad Peak (8051m), Dhaulagiri (8167m), Lhotse (8516m) and Makalu (8481m), as well as ascending to 8200m on K2 ... show more