Mike Banks is a British climber and mountaineer. He has climbed in all continents and the Arctic. During his career as an officer in the Royal Marines, he was a member of the British North Greenland Expedition

British North Greenland Expedition

British North Greenland Expedition was led by Commander James Simpson RN.North Ice was the name of a research station of the expedition, on the inland ice of Greenland.List of BNGE members, with their particulars...

 (1952 to 1954).

In 1958, he made the first ascent of Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi , is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. It is situated in the Nagar Valley approximately 100 km north of the city of Gilgit in the Gilgit District of the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan. Rakaposhi means "Snow Covered" in the local language. Rakaposhi is...

 with Tom Patey

Tom Patey

Tom Patey was a Scottish climber, mountaineer and writer. Although he was a leading Scottish climber of his day, particularly excelling on winter routes, he his probably best known for his humorous songs and prose about climbing, many of which were published posthumously in the collection One...

 as part of a British-Pakistani joint forces Himalayan expedition.

At the age of 77, in May 2000, he climbed the Scottish sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy

Old Man of Hoy

The Old Man of Hoy is a sea stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of igneous basalt rock, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is a distinctive landmark seen from the Thurso to Stromness ferry, MV Hamnavoe, and is a famous rock climb...

becoming the oldest person to have done so.