Conrad Anker | Net Worth, Wife, and Career

Conard Anker is a veteran rock climber and mountaineer known for conquering the Shark’s Fin in Mt. Meru. He achieved the unachievable with his fellow climbers, Renan Oztruk and Jimmy Chin, in 2011 on their second attempt.

Jimmy Chin even co-directed a documentary named Meru with his wife. The documentary showed the struggles that the team faced during their journey.

Though people came to know Anker after his success on Mt.Meru, he was already a renowned name among the climber community.

Anker worked for the North Face as the leader of its climbing team for twenty-six years. During this time, he had already ascended Mt. Everest three times and been to Antarctica twelve times. He is a natural when it comes to climbing and still works for the North Face in its marketing department.

Quick Bio (Age, Height, and Nationality)

Popular NameConrad Anker
Real NameConrad Anker
Date of birthNovember 27, 1962
Age61 years old
Place of birthBig Oak Flat, California, USA
HometownBig Oak Flat, California, USA
FatherWallace Robert Anker
MotherHelga Anna-Johanna Anker
SiblingsTwo
BrotherSteve Anker
SisterDenise Anker
OrientationStraight
StatusMarried
SpouseJennifer Lowe-Anker
ChildrenThree
Step-son(s)Max Anker, Issac Anker and
Sam Anker
OccupationRock climber, Mountaineer, and Author
Net worth2 Million USD
NationalityAmerican
ReligionChristianity
ZodiacSaggitarus
HeightUnknown
WeightUnknown
MeasurementUnknown
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorBrown
ComplexionFair
Instagram idconrad_anker
Twitterconrad_anker
FacebookConrad Anker

Conrad Anker’s Net Worth

Anker is one of the veteran rock climbers and mountaineers who has ruled the dangerous mountains for several years.

Over these years, he has gathered enough experience in the mountains. He has also earned more than enough fortune.

The courageous mountaineer who has climbed Mt. Everest three times has a net worth of 2 million USD.

MORE: See how much is Beth Rodden worth.

Family, Parents, and Early Life

Anker was born and raised in Big Oak Flat in California. He is one of the three children of Wallace, a banker, and Helga. 

The David Brower Award-winning climber with more than four decades of experience has a brother named Steve and a sister named Denise.

Anker grew up in a close and supportive family, where his parent had his back from the very beginning.

Because of this constant support, he started his career mountaineering without any pressure. 

Things remained the same even after his marriage. He married Jennifer, widow of late climber Alex Lowe. 

His wife is familiar with the difficulties in climbing and is also understanding.

It motivated Anker to follow his passion even after becoming a married man and father to three adopted sons. 

However, his journey as a mountaineer halted after a heart attack during his ascend to Lurang Ri in 2016.

During the trip, Anker was flown to Kathmandu immediately and had to undergo a coronary angioplasty.

After the horrifying experience, he gave up on high-altitude climbing, but he has kept his passion for the mountains alive.

Conrad Anker’s Wife Jennifer and Her Ex-Husband

The former leader of the North Face Climbing team has been married to his wife Jennifer Lowe-Anker since 2001. His wife is also a mountain enthusiast. She displays her love for mountains through her writing and arts as an author and artist.

The two met each other through the late veteran climber Alex Lowe. When they met each other, Jennifer was the wife of Lowe, and Anker was the climbing teammate of Lowe.

Jennifer was married to Lowe for several years before he lost his life in an avalanche accident during the trip to Shishapangma.

Anker was also in the expedition with Lowe, but fortunately, he survived the incident. Anker was the only survivor, as both Lowe and another climber, David Bridges, died.

Jennifer and Anker supported each other to overcome the grief of losing Lowe. They started as friends but with time became lovers. Eventually, they decided to get married and became husband and wife.

conrad-anker-wife-jennifer-lowe-anker

When the couple decided to marry, they faced backlash from people who thought it was selfish. Some even mailed them threats, but the couple did not let it come between their love and got married.

After the marriage, Anker legally adopted and raised the three sons from the first marriage of Jennifer with Lowe. 

All three boys are grown up now and are close to their step-father Anker. They even call him Dad.

The couple has a great life together with their sons. They also have a mutual understanding and love between them. 

Jennifer even wrote a memoir, Forget Me Not, dedicated to Anker. The Endless Knot, a movie, was also made based on the love story of Anker and Jennifer.

Heart Attack While Climbing Nepal’s Lunag-Ri

While Conrad was climbing Nepal’s Lunag Ri from the northwest face with David Lama, he had a heart attack (November 16). He was immediately flown to the capital Kathmandu for treatment. During the heart attack, he was at about 2,000 feet of altitude.

Jaw Injury

Conrad Anker has suffered from several injuries in his adventurous career. Besides dislocating a thumb and getting an infected tick bite, he also experienced a jaw injury during his climbing.

Education

Anker attended the Nishimachi International School in Tokyo for his schooling. Then he enrolled in Colorado Rocky Mountain School to complete the remaining of his school.

Once he completed school, he joined the University of Utah. He graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in recreation and leisure studies.

The veteran mountaineer also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah.

Career and Movies

Anker started his career at the age of twenty-five with a trip to the Southeast face of Gunnery Peak.

He then took many trips of rock climbing and mountaineering before joining the team of The North Face in 1992 as the leader of its climbing team. He held the post for twenty-six years and retired in 2018 after getting a heart attack during one of the trips in 2016.

While working for The North Face, Anker also became part of the National Geographic expedition in 2002.

He again led the Net Geographic team in the Mt.Everest Expedition ten years later in 2012. During this expedition, people from the Mayo Clinic and Montana State University were also part of the team.

As a mountaineer, Anker had an exciting career. He visited Antarctica twelve times and reached the peak of Mt.Everest three times. Anker also became the first climber to conquer the Shark’s Fin in Mt. Meru. He completed the unachievable task with Renan Oztruk and Jimmy Chin during their second attempt.

During his career, Anker was also part of many search expeditions. In 1999, he became part of a search expedition to locate the body of George Mallory, one of the members of the third British climbers’ team to climb Mt.Everest.

Again in 2016, he became part of the team, which found the body of Alex Lowe, who died in an avalanche incident.

Anker had bitter-sweet memories during his more than fifty expeditions. He shared many of these memories through his four books. He even shared his expertise in movies like Meru, and The Wildness Dream. 

The talented climber always had a thing for mountains, and his passion was also always appreciated.

Because of his skills and talents, even after retiring from the climbing team, The North Face kept him around by recruiting him into its marketing department.

Anker has also been working with Peltz as a professional athlete since 2016.