Caradog "Crag" Jones (born 1962) is a Welsh climber. He is the first Welshman to reach the summit of
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
, a feat achieved on 23 May 1995. He was the 724th climber to reach the summit.
[Climber Lists: Everest, K2 and other 8000ers]
/ref> The final ascent was made with Michael Knakkergaard-Jorgensen, the first Dane to the summit.
Jones was born and bred in Pontrhydfendigaid
Pontrhydfendigaid () is a village in Ceredigion, Wales. It lies on the western flank of the Cambrian Mountains, between Devil's Bridge and Tregaron. The village lies on the River Teifi, whose source is just 3 miles (5 km) to the east at Ll ...
, a village near Tregaron
Tregaron ( "town of St Caron") is an ancient market town in Ceredigion, Wales, astride the River Brenig, a tributary of the River Teifi. Tregaron is northeast of Lampeter. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the ward of Tregaron wa ...
, Ceredigion
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, in mid-Wales.
Everest expedition
Jones and Jorgensen were part of a larger world team, led by Henry Todd of the UK, and using Himalayan guides.
The team took the northern route (North Col – North East Ridge)
His ascent of Everest was made into a 52-minute film for television, and featured camera work by Eric Jones).
Other peaks and "firsts"
He made the first ascent of Hunza Peak
Hunza Peak () lies in the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range in Pakistan, along with the Ladyfinger Peak (Bublimating). It lies on the southwest ridge of the Ultar Sar massif, the most southeasterly of the major groups of the Batura M ...
(6200m).
On 25 January 2001 Jones made the first ascent, solo, of the highest of the Three Brothers peaks (2008m) at the north west end of the Allardyce Range on South Georgia.
In 2005, together with Julian Freeman-Attwood, Rich Howarth and Skip Novak, Jones completed a 17-day south–north traverse of South Georgia. As part of this they made the first ascent of Pk. 5680 (1,727m).BMC – International
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In October 1996, with Mick Fowler and Julian Freeman-Attwood, Jones made the first ascent of ''Yes, Please'', a crag in Orkney. ''(A pictur
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Jones now lives with his wife and children in Frodsham
Frodsham is a market town, civil parish, and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population was 8,982 in 2001, increasing to 9,077 at the 2011 Census. It is s ...
, Cheshire, working as a freelance fisheries consultant.[High society , Magazine , The Observer]
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See also
* Timeline of climbing Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,849 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the Himalayan range of Solukhumbu district (Province 1 in present days), Nepal.
Timeline 1921: Reconnaissance ex ...
*List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Evere ...
References
External links
'Mount Everest – The British Story', with team details
Article on BBC website
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Living people
Welsh explorers
Welsh mountain climbers
People from Ceredigion
People from Frodsham
1962 births
British summiters of Mount Everest
Sportspeople from Cheshire