| From | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Gender | Male |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked) | 8A |
| Hardest Sport (Worked) | 8c+ |
| Hardest Sport (Onsight) | 7c+ |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E9 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight) | E7 |
| World Cups | |
| Appearances | 1 |
John Dunne is a British climber from Bradford who established many hard, high quality sport and trad routes in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular routes like Austrian Oak and Magnetic Fields at Malham Cove were some of the hardest in the UK at the time.
John also put up many excellent trad routes. For example The New Statesman at Ilkley included very difficult climbing in a dangerous position and was one of the hardest and best routes on gritstone when it was put up. Other 'last great problems' include The Big Issue (E9), Breathless (E9) and Divided Years (E9).
John's climbing attracted controversy throughout his career, notably his first ascent of Parthian Shot (E9) which some residents of Sheffield found hard to believe – despite evidence to the contrary.
[1] Interview with Adrian Berry March 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20061022044419/http://www.planetfear.com/article_detail.asp?a_id=466
[2] John Dunne - The Big Issue 1996 film by Sid Perou
| From | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Gender | Male |
| Climbing | |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked) | 8A |
| Hardest Sport (Worked) | 8c+ |
| Hardest Sport (Onsight) | 7c+ |
| Hardest Trad (Worked) | E9 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight) | E7 |
| World Cups | |
| Appearances | 1 |
John Dunne is a British climber from Bradford who established many hard, high quality sport and trad routes in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular routes like Austrian Oak and Magnetic Fields at Malham Cove were some of the hardest in the UK at the time.
John also put up many excellent trad routes. For example The New Statesman at Ilkley included very difficult climbing in a dangerous position and was one of the hardest and best routes on gritstone when it was put up. Other 'last great problems' include The Big Issue (E9), Breathless (E9) and Divided Years (E9).
John's climbing attracted controversy throughout his career, notably his first ascent of Parthian Shot (E9) which some residents of Sheffield found hard to believe – despite evidence to the contrary.
[1] Interview with Adrian Berry March 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20061022044419/http://www.planetfear.com/article_detail.asp?a_id=466
[2] John Dunne - The Big Issue 1996 film by Sid Perou