Claude Ernest Benson


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From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Date of death 30th Mar 1932
Gender Male
Groups
Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Vice-President 1927–1929
Member 1912–1915

Author of Crag and Hound in Lakeland, British Mountaineering and Mountaineering Ventures, who left the War Office to write; a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1]

At length I have come to the conclusion that there must be two kinds of ordinary mountain limestone, one that I know and one that I do not, and the latter is the stuff that is good to climb on. [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1934, 6(21) /library/10966/yrcj-1934;-6(21)

[2] One Summer /library/42/one-summer Unclear where the quote originated from.

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19 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Quick Info

From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Date of death 30th Mar 1932
Gender Male
Groups
Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Vice-President 1927–1929
Member 1912–1915

Author of Crag and Hound in Lakeland, British Mountaineering and Mountaineering Ventures, who left the War Office to write; a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1]

At length I have come to the conclusion that there must be two kinds of ordinary mountain limestone, one that I know and one that I do not, and the latter is the stuff that is good to climb on. [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1934, 6(21) /library/10966/yrcj-1934;-6(21)

[2] One Summer /library/42/one-summer Unclear where the quote originated from.

Contributors
19 contributions since 10th October 2026.

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