Paul Pritchard


Quick Info

From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Gender Male
Climbing
Hardest Sport (Worked) 7c+
Hardest Trad (Worked) E8
Hardest Trad (Onsight) E7
Notable Partnerships
Adam Wainwright
Johnny Dawes

Paul Pritchard is a British rock climber and mountaineer. He was a prominent figure in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in and around North Wales.

On the 13th February 1998 he suffered a traumatic brain injury while climbing on The Totem Pole in Tasmania which left him with hemiplegia.

References

[1] Features in 80's Birth of Extreme

[2] A Kind of Homecoming by Martin Crook, On The Edge Issue 87, page 18

Contributors
119 contributions since 19th January 2021.
TdG
41 contributions since 22nd September 2025.

Quick Info

From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Gender Male
Climbing
Hardest Sport (Worked) 7c+
Hardest Trad (Worked) E8
Hardest Trad (Onsight) E7
Notable Partnerships
Adam Wainwright
Johnny Dawes

Paul Pritchard is a British rock climber and mountaineer. He was a prominent figure in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in and around North Wales.

On the 13th February 1998 he suffered a traumatic brain injury while climbing on The Totem Pole in Tasmania which left him with hemiplegia.

References

[1] Features in 80's Birth of Extreme

[2] A Kind of Homecoming by Martin Crook, On The Edge Issue 87, page 18

Contributors
119 contributions since 19th January 2021.
TdG
41 contributions since 22nd September 2025.

Bibliography

Pritchard, Paul. Mountain Path: A Climber's Journey Through Life and Death. Vertebrate Graphics Limited, 2021.
Pritchard, Paul. The Longest Climb. Constable and Robinson, 2005.
Paul, Pritchard,. The totem pole: and a whole new adventure. Seattle, WA: Mountaineers, 1999.
Paul, Pritchard,. Deep play: a climber's odyssey from Llanberis to the big walls. London: Bâton Wicks, 1997.

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