# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:29:19.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-ballard"
name: "Tom Ballard"
slug: "tom-ballard"
description: "Tom Ballard was a British rock climber and alpinist, who was the first mountaineer to climb the six major alpine north faces solo in a single winter season. In February 2019, Ballard disappeared during bad weather on an expedition to Nanga Parbat, in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. His body was discovered on the mountain's Mummery Spur on 9 March 2019."
tagline: "British rock climber and alpinist (1988-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Tom_Ballard.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1988-10-16"
deathDate: "2019-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.555802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Tom-Ballard-116719218363393"
    handle:    "Tom-Ballard-116719218363393"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard"
    title: "Tom Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "توم بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_(%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%80)"
    title: "টম বালার্ড (পর্বতারোহী)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard"
    title: "Tom Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard_(climber)"
    title: "Tom Ballard (climber)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard_(escalador)"
    title: "Tom Ballard (escalador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61963060"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump