At age 36, Luis Benitez stands among the world’s foremost high altitude mountaineers and Leadership Management consultants. In October, 2010, Luis participated as one of the guides in the successful World T.E.A.M. Sports‘ Soldiers to the Summit expedition to Nepal.
On May 21, 2007, Luis achieved his sixth summit of Mt. Everest. In 2004, Benitez claimed the world’s (non-Sherpa) record for most consecutive summits of Everest: four in four years. This is an outstanding achievement, because in any given year, fewer than 20% of the hundreds of climbers who attempt Everest summit. (Since Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic first summit in 1953, only about 10,000 people have attempted to climb the mountain. Of these, about 1,400 have succeeded in reaching the summit, with more than 200 having died trying.)
Benitez has most recently led expeditions for Adventure Consultants Ltd., “AC,” a highly respected New Zealand-based expedition firm with a long Everest history. AC was founded by Rob Hall, who perished in the heavily documented 1996 Everest disaster. Benitez also guided blind climber Erik Weihenmayer to his historic 2001 Everest summit, chronicled in the feature film Farther Than The Eye Can See and also in Erik’s book Touch the Top of the World. He has reached the top of six of the famed “Seven Summits” a cumulative 32 times.
If there is any message that Luis likes to leave with people and groups he works with, it is this, “never be afraid to go out and find your own Everest.”
Luis lives in Golden, Colorado. For further information regarding Luis, visit his website.
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