Mountaineer JP Mohr's message: "We can all reach our summits"

The late mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr imagined sport in everything. Whether it was a city wall or a mountain slope, Mohr would see its sporting potential.

Chilean mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr wanted to give children a chance to reach their own summits

The late mountaineer Juan Pablo Mohr imagined sport in everything. Whether it was a city wall or a mountain slope, Mohr would see its sporting potential.

His hometown of Santiago - Chile's bustling capital surrounded by the snow-capped Andes mountains - was the perfect place to cultivate that passion.

As a child, Mohr threw himself into urban sports including skateboarding and parkour, before setting his sights on the mountains that loomed above the city.

He became Chile's most accomplished climber; he is the fastest person in the world to climb both Everest (8,848m) and Lhotse (8,516m) in less than a week without bottled oxygen.

But last year, he tragically died on K2 (8,611m), the deadliest mountain in the world, while attempting to break the record for climbing it during winter without bottled oxygen. He was 34 years old and a father of three.

Despite his record-breaking achievements abroad, Mohr never forgot his home city.

In 2013, he founded the non-profit organisation Deporte Libre, which installs climbing and sporting equipment on abandoned urban infrastructure in schools and public spaces.

BBC.COM