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- Alex Lowe (born 15 January 1968) is an English actor, comedian and voice artist. He is the creator and performer of the characters Barry from Watford on Steve Wright 's BBC Radio 2 show and Iain Lee 's shows, and the character Clinton Baptiste, originally seen in Phoenix Nights, as whom he has since toured.
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Alex Lowe (born 15 January 1968) is an English actor, comedian and voice artist. He is the creator and performer of the characters Barry from Watford on Steve Wright 's BBC Radio 2 show and Iain Lee 's shows, and the character Clinton Baptiste, originally seen in Phoenix Nights, as whom he has since toured.
Stewart Alexander Lowe (24 December 1958 – 5 October 1999) was an American mountaineer. He has been described as inspiring "...a whole generation of climbers and explorers with his uncontainable enthusiasm, legendary training routines, and significant ascents of rock climbs, ice climbs, and mountains all over the world...".
- Who Was Alex Lowe?
- Alex Lowe First Climbs
- Alex Lowe’s Climbing Achievements
- A Young Family
- Denali Rescues
- Shishipangma
- “Torn” – Alex Lowe Film
- Where to Stream Torn Online
- Alex’s Body Found
- Alex Lowe’s Legacy
Alex Lowe was a prolific mountaineer and climber who was widely considered the “best” climber of his day. Throughout the 90s he traveled the world making first ascents of undocumented mountains, pioneering new routes on notorious peaks, and pushing the limits of just howmuch a person could do. He was the rare crossover climber who loved rock and ic...
When he was a young boy Alex lived in Montana, an incredible area for hiking, climbing, and exploring the wilderness. His parents would regularly take him out on hikes to the national parks in areas like the Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness. After these early formative experiences in the outdoors, he started technical rock climbing as a teen in high s...
Grand Teton New Routes + Records
Many of Alex’s earliest adventures were had in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Over his lifetime he said he’d climbed the 13,774 ft (4,199m) peak of the Grand Teton over 100 times. In 1984 he made the first winter ascent of the north face along with Jack Tackle. In 1991 Alex would go back to do the same winter route completely solo. For 12 years Alex also held the record for the fastest traverse of all 10 of the major peaks in the Tetons at 8 hours and 15 minutes. Alex loved the Tet...
Great Trango Tower
One of Alex’s most famous climbs was the first ascent of the Northwest Face of the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan with Jared Ogden and Mark Synnott. The 6,286m tower is known as “the biggest big wall” and features a Yosemite-like granite face of long vertical cracks. As a team of three with Jared Ogden and Mark Synnott, they conquered the wall over 28 days of climbing and hauling, sleeping in portaledges overnight until the grueling job was done. Synnott describesthe team nearly bailing multi...
Mount Everest
Lowe climbed Mount Everest successfully from the Nepalese side via the South Col in 1990, then again in 1993 when he acted as a guide. He also attempted a route on the harder and more technical Kangshung face on the eastern side, though the team had to come downbefore a summit.
Alex first met his wife-to-be Jennifer in a bike shop in Missoula but she was married at the time. Just a few years later they met again in Boulder, Colorada. At the time Jenni was wanting to leave her marriage, and Alex was a young and free guy looking for fun and adventure. In “Torn” Jennifer plainly says that at the time she never considered Ale...
Mount Denali in Alaska is the highest peak in North America at 6,190m up in the remote and wild landscape. In 1995Alex and friends made a summit and they were planning a series of climbs in the area. On the same peak, a group of Spanish climbers they’d encountered on their descent had becometrapped for four days in freezing conditionsbecause of a w...
In 1999, Alex planned an ambitious climb with close friend Conrad Anker and a small documentary team. The plan was toclimb the 8,013 meter peak of Shishipangma in Tibet, and descend on skis. They aimed to become the first American team to ski down from any peak over 8,000 meters. Alex and Conrad went in a team with cameraman David Bridges to make a...
Warning – Contains spoilers for the film! Over twenty years since Alex’s death, his son Max started working on a documentary about the man and his family. The film is very personal, and while it chronicles Alex’s life and achievements it does it mainly through interviews with his sons, wife Jennifer, and close friends – including Conrad Ankerwho su...
You can stream Torn online exclusively on Disney+ here. You can also find other great climbing films like Dawn Wall, Free Solo, The Alpinist, and Valley Uprising on other streaming services in our list of the Best Climbing Documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime. ‘The Rescue’ is a documentary on the 2018 Thai cave rescuethat was also recently rel...
In 2016 Ueli Steck and David Goettler – two famous mountaineers in their own right – were acclimatizing on Shishipangma before attempting a new route they were trying to establish. On the way, they encountered two bodies in the same area as the avalanche that took Alex Lowe and David Bridges. Coincidentally, Jennifer Lowe-Anker and Conrad Anker wer...
Despite being called “the World’s Best Climber” by Outside magazine, Alex Lowe was notoriously humble and always ready to climb with anyone who could keep up. When asked about how he felt he ranked himself he famously shrugged off the moniker, saying… “the best climber in the world is the one having the most fun“.
Dec 6, 2021 · When Alex Lowe, one of America’s most celebrated alpinists, died with fellow climber and cameraman David Bridges in an avalanche on Shishapangma in 1999, he left a wife and three kids behind.
Dec 15, 2022 · Was Alex Lowe the best climber? Alex Lowe was considered among the most talented and accomplished mountaineers of his time and was widely known for his boundless stamina on the wall. Lowe put up a number of hard rock & ice routes worldwide, climbed on The North Face team for nearly a decade, and was a highly-regarded skier.
Torn is a 2021 American documentary film by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, son of the late climber Alex Lowe, who explored his father's high-profile mountain climbing death on the Himalayan peak, Mount Shishapangma, in 1999. His body was discovered in 2016, 17 years after his death. [1] The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Telluride ...
On Oct. 5, 1999, legendary climber Alex Lowe was tragically lost alongside cameraman and fellow climber David Bridges in a deadly avalanche on the slopes of the Tibetan mountain, Shishapangma.
