Eamon Christopher McKinley "Ginge" Fullen QGM[1] (born 1967/1968) is a British mountaineer and former Royal Navy clearance diver who holds the Guinness World Records for the fastest climbs of every peak in Europe and Africa.
[5] He was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal in the 1988 New Year Honours for saving lives during the 1987 MS Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster[6] whilst serving in the Royal Navy.
[4] In 2007, while paying off climbing expenses, a vessel Fullen was working on in the Bight of Benin was attacked by Nigerian pirates.
[5] Growing up inspired by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Fullen climbed Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Russia and Europe, in 1992.
[note 1][5] In 2018, after summiting Pico da Neblina, the highest peak of Brazil, Fullen contracted leishmaniasis.