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Sensibly priced 1:1 mountain guiding from multi world recording  breaking mountaineer

JASON BLACK MOUNTAINEERING

ABOUT US

Jason Black Mountaineering is a professional high altitude guiding specialist company, leading expeditions to the world’s famous peaks in Nepal, Africa and South America. 

Jason Black Mountaineering provides education and training for climbers who aspire to become self-sufficient, safe and respectful outdoor enthusiasts.
Our safety standard, mountain knowledge and adventure travel experience is exceptional. Our small group approach has huge advantages, including better guide to client ratio, reduced environmental impact and stronger team dynamic.

JASON BLACK

At the helm is Jason Black himself , a professional Mountaineer and High Altitude Mountaineering Specialist with Summits of Mt Everest | K2 | 8 x 8000m | 21 x 7000m | 52 x 6000m | 2 x Mountaineering World Records.

His remarkable list of achievements places him as one of the world’s leading high altitude mountaineers.

In addition to leading  expeditions worldwide throughout the year, Jason consults on Research & Development for mountaineering and adventure equipment companies testing equipment to the limits in the harshest environments.

Jason Black inspires and empower individuals and organisations on how using adventure we can leave a positive life changing experience. At Jason Black Mountaineering we place purpose before profit, empowering local communities, employing local guides, porters, cooks, supporting local businesses and leaving a lasting positive humanitarian impact is at the core of our mountaineering values.
Join us on a transformative expedition, where purpose, passion, and the thrill of the great outdoors converge.

Jason speaks professionally to schools, business organisations and teams about his mountaineering experiences, leadership, and managing risk.
Some recent examples include Boston Scientific, Linkedin, Pfizer Inc, Amazon, Facebook, the armed forces and many others.

BIOGRAPHY

JASON BLACK

A Tale of Tragedy to Triumph.

Biography

Born in Ireland Jason Black’s love for the great outdoors started as a very young boy heavily influenced by cubs and scouts. Ireland was to be his perfect adventure playground.
Jason’s personality is light hearted and fun filled. His unfaltering determination hard work and commitment from a very early age to find purpose remove obstacles and find solutions has been his greatest success in life.
Jason black lost an education catastrophically destroyed at the hands of a violent bully. Struggling with depression his salvation became mother nature, giving him a platform to rebuild his self- belief, discipline and a competitive attitude to be the best he could ever be. Over twenty years was spent in the Judo association of Ireland competing for Ireland on international duties. Alongside this a further twenty years was clocked up as a member of cycling Ireland, racing competitively International and nationally. 
Jason Black’s passion to test his physical and mental capabilities is as strong today as ever placing him as one of the world’s leading high altitude mountaineers & International expedition leader, guiding to the highest peaks on the planet. 
His self-belief and commitment as a person has seen him making Irish history, being the first and only Donegal person to stand on the summit of Mt Everest the highest place on the planet at 29,029ft on 19th may 2013, climbing the challenging North-face route via Tibet. On the 22nd of July 2018 at 6am Jason Black went one better and topped off his mountaineering career by being the first republic of Ireland person to successfully summit and survive the savage mountain K2. Jason Black has joined the very small yet illustrious group of 345 global mountaineers in history to ever summit K2. He was awarded Ireland’s National outdoor athlete of the year for this momentous achievement.
Jason Black, like others has had his fair share of lows & losses in his life. But his resilience to continue and stand up each time he’s been knocked down truly has been truly remarkable.Jason’s passionately shares “The battle with life”with the youth of the world in communities as he travels the globe on adventure. Empowering young women & men “Not to be afraid of setting new goals, finding a way to overcome the obstacles, visualising and delivering on your dreams and ambitions”. Walking in your own shoes, creating your own box at a time when the world has a box created for you will be your greatest success, because it’s only then you’ll really find true purpose.
With other people’s wellbeing and welfare to the fore of Jason’s purpose, has spent a great deal of his time talking to the Youth of today and inspiring them to believe in themselves.
This passion has seen him talk to in excess of 1000’s of schools, and youth organisations globally. Promoting positive mental health and self-worth are so fundamentally important to Jason. Empowering our youth to dream, trust, commit, train, plan believe and inspire to be unstoppable is his game changing attitude…
Jason Black receives national & international radio, Tv and online media as an Irish ambassador on a global sporting stage. Recently Jason shared his human story to the nation on the Ray D’Arcy show, he felt empowered to talk about his past and the “shone in his shoe”, how he held things together during difficult periods in his life and ultimately how he used a troubled past to survive.
Jason Black is the Global Ambassador for the Irish Red Cross. Having a privilege to see first hand the incredible humanitarian work done on the ground in the wake natural disasters or war the crippling effects of displacement and poverty left behind has awoken a deeper human consciousness.
Jason had the pleasure to present to life’s game changers at the Irish Humanitarian Awards in Dublin presenting Alice Leahy with the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Award for her role in supporting the homeless and socially for over 40 years. And presented to Pat Hume for her compassion and commitment to delivering peace in Northern Ireland during the Irish struggles.During the Covid Pandemic Jason was involved with the world largest pharmaceutical company battling against the global disease. Bring all his experience controlling pressure, exposure and the isolation of having to push through to success, using his “Tough Programme” in support of the clinical research team based in Canada, as they worked day and night under immense pressure in a bid to develop a global covid cure. His humanitarian work continues.

Mountaineering

Mt Everest summiteer
K2 summiteer  
Mt Kilimanjaro World record holder 
Mt Aconcagua World record holder

National outdoor athlete of the year Ireland
Mont Blanc 3 sides x 10
Matterhorn x 2 
Toubkal x 10
Island Peak x 8
Mera peak x 6
Elbrus x 8
Kilimanjaro x 30
Ama Dablam x 4
Denali west rib x 1
Aconcagua x 5

Endurance

Race around Ireland ultra – Winner 2017
North-cape ultra 4000km – 6th 2019
TransAtlantic way ultra 2500km – 3rd 2019
Race across Laos ultra 1100km – Winner 2019
Race across Oman ultra 1200km – 2nd 2019
Eco challenge Fiji – The world’s toughest adventure race 2019.
SAS ultimate hell week 2019
Race around Rwanda ultra 1000km – 6th 2020
GB Duro ultra 2500km 2020
TWA ultra 2500km 2020
Dales Divide ultra 800km – 2nd 2021
JoeBar ultra 803km – 1st 2021
Two Volcanoes Mt Etna & Mt Vesuvius ultra -1200km 2021
ADVENTURE + EXPERTISE + PURPOSE

MEDIA

Jason Black Named Donegal Person of the Year Read Donegal News Article
Irish Red Cross Ambassador reaches K2 READ IRISH RED CROSS ARTICLE
Donegal man pays tribute to fellow climber who lost his life on world’s second highest mountain as he receives hero’s welcome home REad Donegal News Article
World’s most dangerous peaks just one battle in Jason Black’s extraordinary life READ WORLD’S DANGEROUS ARTICLE
K2 climber Jason Black lost two colleagues on the world’s second highest mountain READ lost two colleagues
Worlds leading Mountaineerclimbs the summit of his life – epic READ The summit of my life