He was voted the Mountaineers' Mountaineer in a poll in The Observer, and with Paul Ramsden, won the 2002 Piolet d'Or and Golden Piton awards for their ascent of Mount Siguniang in the Qionglai Mountains in the Sichuan Province of China. In 2012, he was awarded the King Albert award for his outstanding contribution to mountaineering, and in 2013, he and Paul Ramsden became the first pair to win a Piolet d'Or award twice after their ascent of the Prow of Shiva in the Indian Himalayas. Paul Ramsden and Mick Fowler received the Piolet d'Or for a third time in 2016 for their ascent of Gave Ding, 6,571-meter (Nepal).