nationality birth_date known_for article_title name
british 1958 former sas , technical advisor , mountaineer harry taylor -lrb- mountaineer -rrb-
 harry taylor
harry taylor -lrb- mountaineer -rrb-

harry taylor -lrb- born 20 september 1958 -rrb- is a former british sas member , mountaineer and security advisor .
he founded ` high adventure ' with loel guinness , an extreme sports company specifically designed to set records in climbing , paragliding , and skydiving .
his team set a world distance flight record for a paraglider at 150.6 km in namibia .
in 1991 , with close friend charles `` nish '' bruce he made a tandem skydive with oxygen from 27,000 feet over badajoz in spain .
taylor did a tandem paraglider flight from cho oyu 8,201 m tibet and was also the 1st british paraglider pilot to fly from denali , alaska .
taylor began his career in the royal marines as an arctic survival instructor , and later served with the british 22 sas .
in the late 1990s taylor was security advisor to bp in algeria , as well as to a number of world-renowned families .
he also led an international investigation on human trafficking .
after his service in the sas , he became an ifmga mountain guide and in 1988 successfully completed the first traverse of the `` pinnacles '' on mount everest 's ene ridge with russell brice .
in 1993 he became the second briton to have summited mount everest without supplementary oxygen .
he has climbed on everest 7 times with expeditions to n face , ene ridge , n ridge , se ridge winter and spring .
taylor was also an instructor at king abdullah ii special operations training center in amman , jordan .
in 2012 taylor co-founded missionx , a tactical adventure company specializing in leadership and development , film and television consulting , and extreme vacations .
