| From | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Date of birth | 1st Sep 1947 |
| Date of death | 9th Sep 2001 |
| Age | 54 years old |
| Gender | Male |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked) | 7A |
| Hardest Sport (Worked) | 7a+ |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E5 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight) | E5 |
| Notable Partnerships | |
| Geoff Birtles | |
| John Kirk | |
An influential climber in the UKs Peak District throughout the 1960s and 70s.
I climbed solo for the first year because I had no one to climb with, I didn't know anybody. I treated it like a job, I'd go out at 8 O’clock in the morning and take my sandwiches, climb to about 12, eat my lunch and then climb to about 4 O'clock and then go home. I did about 4,000 foot of solo in a day and that was every week. 1 went about 38-39 weeks on the trot around Birchens, finding new bits to do and treating it as a bit like a workout. [4]
Tom once climbed "157 routes, mostly hard" [3] in a day on Stanage.
[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2001/09/tom_proctor_dies-1249
[2] On The Edge, Issue 112 page 12
[3] Alan Rouse in Two's a Crowd, Mountain issue 21, page 28
[4] The Power of Climbing (1991), page 35