| From: | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hardest Boulder (Worked): | 8A |
| Hardest Sport (Worked): | 8c+ |
| Hardest Sport (Onsight): | 7c+ |
| Hardest Trad (Worked): | E9 |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight): | E7 |
John Dunne is a British climber 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 routes on gritstone when it was put up.
John's climbing attracted a degree of controversy with some not believing his claimed ascents, though these doubts now appear to be unfounded.
[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