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Daniel Bull

Australian adventurer, mountain climber, and professional speaker

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ56952933 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daniel Bull (born 1980) is an Australian adventurer, mountain climber, and professional speaker. He has climbed the Seven Summits and the Volcanic Seven Summits. He also holds the world record for the highest altitude kayaking. He currently works as a motivational speaker.

Early life and education

Bull was born in 1980 to Martin and Jill Bull. He attended St. Bede's College in Mentone. He went on to Monash University where he studied a double degree in business accounting and computer science. Bull began a career in IT consulting in business intelligence while pursuing his lifestyle as an adventurer.

Career

Bull became the youngest Australian to climb Ama Dablam in the Himalayas, doing so at the age of 23.

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The public source identifies “Daniel Bull” as australian adventurer, mountain climber, and professional speaker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Daniel, Bull and Australian.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Daniel, Bull and Australian providing the first useful test.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56952933. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daniel Bull” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.