Robert Mads Anderson

Anderson is the Author of four books: Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest, (in French, Neuf vies - Expeditions A L'Everest, published by Editions Paulsen), Seven Summits Solo, To Everest via Antarctica and Antonovs over the Arctic: Flying to the North Pole in a Russian biplane.

His latest book: Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest, is about the life changing and life defining moments on Everest. The introduction and first chapter are serialized at www.explore7summits/category/nine-lives/

Anderson led the ascent of a new route on the Kangshung Face, Everest, climbing with a 4-man team including Paul Teare, Ed Webster and Stephen Venables, ascending without Sherpas or oxygen, before going on to summit the remaining of the 7 summits solo.

More recently, in the Himalaya, he has guided ascents of Everest (twice), Shishipangma, Cho Oyu, Gasherbrum 2, and Makalu.

Seven Summits Solo covers his solo climbs on the seven summits, in a large format coffee table book, published by Clarkson Potter in the U.S., also released in a private edition for Rolex Watch. To Everest via Antarctica was published widely, first by Penguin, and includes a rare pirated Eastern European edition with someone else on the cover - but the story is his.

Anderson has also completed a number of new routes in the Arctic, as well as on Mt Vinson in Antarctica, spending the 2016/17/18/19/20 seasons guiding on both the rarely visited East and the traditional West sides of the peak. The Rolex Ridge which he made the first ascent of solo, has yet to see a 2nd ascent.

Anderson is an international speaker for multi-national corporations, with talks and training seminars on leadership, team-building, motivation and achieving larger than life goals with smaller than expected teams. His blog on the latest news from the 7 summits is at Explore7summits.