Hi, I’m Alan Arnette. Welcome to Summit Coach.
Summit Coach is Alan’s consulting service to help aspiring climbers reach their summits. It leverages his 30 years of climbing and 30 years of business experience. The primary benefit to you is that Alan is not a professional climber but has professional results, with summits of K2, Everest, seven of the eight Seven Summits, and 225 Colorado 14,000-foot summits.
You can see all of Alan’s adventures on his main site at alanarnette.com
Personal
Alan retired from a 29-year career with HP in early 2007 to oversee his mother’s final years with Alzheimer’s. He enjoyed different jobs with HP in several U.S. states and European countries. His work ranged from sales to marketing to product development to running worldwide businesses, almost always in a management role.
His interests include coaching, professional speaking, climbing, and Alzheimer’s causes:
Speaking
As a speaker, he offers a unique approach where he combines his time as his mother’s caregiver plus a career of running global businesses through the eyes of Alan’s mountaineering adventures to get audiences to think about goals, overcoming obstacles, and celebrating life. His most popular presentation is Passion and Purpose: Making Your Mark on the World. This high-impact multimedia presentation for corporate audiences takes audiences through the three phases of accomplishing a challenging goal: preparation, execution, and overcoming adversity. His K2: Fighting for Summit and Life is acknowledged as one of the best pure mountaineering and human drama talks available.
Climbing
As a mountaineer, he has been on 38 major climbs worldwide since age 38. He has climbed well above 6000 meters over ten times and Everest (29,035/8848m) four times, summiting on May 21, 2011.
His other 8000m summits include Manaslu (26,759′ /8,156 m) in October 2013 and K2 (28,251’/8611m). On Alan’s 58th birthday, July 27, 2014, he became the 18th and oldest American to summit K2.
Alan has climbed all of Colorado’s 58 14,000-foot mountains almost 225 times, with repeats. Between November 2010 and October 2011, Alan completed climbing seven of the eight ” Seven Summits. ”
Alzheimer’s
For Alan’s last area, being an Alzheimer’s Advocate is his life’s work. This disease has no cure, impacts over 50 million worldwide, and took four of Alan’s aunts plus Alan’s mom, Ida, in August 2009. Today, Alan’s climbing is to raise Alzheimer’s awareness and research funds so our children’s generation will never experience this robber of memories and lives.
Alan has conducted three large-scale projects for Alzheimer’s: The Road Back to Mt. Everest in 2007/8 with climbs on Denali, Shishapangma, Aconcagua and Orizaba plus Everest. In 2011, The 7 Summits for Alzheimer’s: Memories are Everything® campaign where Alan climbed 7 of the 8 of the world’s highest peaks on each continent, aka The 7 Summits and in 2014, Climbing K2, the world’s hardest mountain to fight the world’s hardest disease, Alzheimer’s.
Writing
Alan contributes to Outside Magazine on climbing subjects. If you will forgive his self-promotion, Outside Magazine posted in an extensive interview with him in which he talks about his childhood, mountains, Everest, and, of course, Alzheimer’s. They even said Alan was “one of the world’s most respected chroniclers of Everest.”
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