Ama Dablam - Expedition News - 10th October 2026

About Patrick Hickie

Patrick is a qualified Winter Mountaineering & Climbing Instructor (WMCI), the highest of the UK’s climbing qualifications, and also a qualified International Mountain Leader (IML).

His climbing stretches back over 40 years and he has been lucky enough to climb in such far flung places as Alaska (on Denali), New Zealand and Patagonia; in Africa on Mt Kenya and Kilimanjaro; and in the Karakoram and the Nepal Himalaya. This has included a very technical first ascent in Nepal and an attempted second ascent in the Gasherbrum range. He has led expeditions to all the ’usual’ 6000m summits in the Khumbu region. Closer to home, he has climbed extensively in the UK, the Alps and Scandinavia.

While he loves to travel, Patrick is equally happy rock climbing in North Wales, winter climbing on the cliffs of Ben Nevis and just wandering about in the Lake District fells.