Schmidt climbed and guided clients on all of the Seven Summits—the highest mountains on each continent—and climbed five of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks. Throughout his career, he climbed and summited - Denali 29 times, Aconcagua 34 times (five different routes including the south face), Mount Cook 26 times, Mount Aspiring 16 times, Mount Tasman 7 times and Mount Everest two times.