Ben Clark (born 1979) of Clarksville, Tennessee, is a mountaineer and commercial filmmaker. Clark is married to Mary Anne Potts and has a son, Charlie Clark and a daughter, Scarlett Clark. Most of his family members live in Clarksville, Tennessee including his mother and father, Anne and Jerry Clark, Jonathan Clark, his brother, and his two nieces Maggie and Molly Clark. Ben started rock climbing in his late teens and progressed to larger, more challenging mountains in his early 20s, eventually spending a decade pioneering alpine and ski mountaineering routes in the Nepali and Tibetan Himalayas. On May 22, 2003, at the age of 23, Ben became the second-youngest American to summit Mount Everest, via the North-Northeast Ridge Route, and also launched a film career.
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1979 (age 46)
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