Michael 'Mick' Fowler is an award-winning British mountaineer and author. He was voted the 'Mountaineers' Mountaineer' in a poll in The Observer and with Paul Ramsden won the 2002 Piolet d'Or and Golden Piton awards for their ascent of 6,250-metre Mount Siguniang in the Qionglai Mountains in the Sichuan Province of China. In 2012 he was awarded the King Albert award for his 'outstanding contribution to mountaineering' and in 2013 he and Paul Ramsden became the first pair to win a Piolet d'Or award twice after their ascent of the 6,142-metre Prow of Shiva in the Indian Himalayas. He was one of the first people to rock climb at the E6 grade of difficulty and winter climb at grade VI. He is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of adventurous rock climbs on sea cliffs and sea stacks and the use of ice-climbing techniques on the soft chalk cliffs of England's south-east coast. Fowler has written two volumes of memoirs, both of which were shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. He won the Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival and the best book prize at the Bormio Mountain Festival in 2012. 

January 1st, 1956 in United Kingdom (Age 69)