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Jake Meyer

Jake Meyer is a British mountaineer and adventurer. In 2005, he became the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, aged 21 years 4 months. In doing so, Meyer also became the youngest man in the world to complete the Seven Summits challenge. In 2018 he summited K2, the second highest mountain in the world.

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K2 represents one of the world’s toughest mountaineering challenges

Feature · 23 Oct 2021

Climbing K2: Jake Meyer's ten-year journey to the summit of the savage mountain

Jake Meyer, one of the youngest Britons to climb Everest, and the youngest man in the world to complete the Seven Summits, undertook his biggest challenge when he faced The Savage...