Climbers from United Kingdom

Vin Dillon joined the Rucksack Club in the late 1940s and, with Herbert Hartley and Vin Desmond, made first ascents on Kinder Great Buttress, including Trio Wall and Extinguisher Chimney. He climbed in the Alps in the early 1950s, including the Zmutt Ridge of the Matterhorn and the north-west face of the Dent d'Hérens, and from 1960 ran the club's high camps for 30 years. He was made president of the club in 1972. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 2003-2004 /library/7669/rucksack-club-journal-2003-2004

W. P. Marler joined the Climbers' Club in 1899; honorary treasurer 1926–37 and vice-president 1932–35, he left the committee in 1943 after seventeen years. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Climbers' Club Journal 1957 /library/7319/climbers-club-1957-journal

Walter Nelson was a chartered accountant, senior partner of Nelson, Gilmour, Scott & Company, Glasgow, a member of the Alpine Club and a regular climber in Switzerland. He joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1903 and was its Honorary Treasurer (1907-1913) and then Acting Treasurer (1914-1919). [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 138 - Vol 23 - Apr 1947 /library/7044/smcj-number-138---vol-23---apr-1947

Principal of the Leeds Training College, rock climber and pot-hole pioneer: he led the second ascent of Walker's Gully and took part in the Rowten Pot campaigns of 1897–99 and the exploration of Gaping Gill (the Booth-Parsons Crawl). He was president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club through the First World War. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1947, 7(24) /library/11047/yrcj-1947;-7(24)

Pat Stonehouse, general practitioner at Dobcross and an archaeologist of the Saddleworth and Marsden moors, was president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club 1964–66. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1999, 12(11) /library/11046/yrcj-1999;-12(11)

English photographer, hill walking and scrambling guidebook writer, and industrial chemist in the cosmetics industry. Poucher's books helped popularise these activities in Britain following World War Two. His later books had annotated photo topos akin to current rock climbing guidebooks.

Walter Riley was a Manchester builder, born in Moss Side, who joined the Rucksack Club in the 1920s and became an honorary member. He was a member of the Bogtrotters, built the long table now at Beudy Mawr and the prototype of the Thomas stretcher, and died aged 100. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 2003-2004 /library/7669/rucksack-club-journal-2003-2004

Editor of Climber and Rambler magazine, founder of Cicerone Press with Brian Evans.

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/rock_talk/walt_unsworth-665570

[2] https://www.cicerone.co.uk/about-cicerone

[3] https://www.cicerone.co.uk/remembering-walt-unsworth

Contemporary of Joe Brown and fellow member of the Manchester Valkyrie Climbing Club.

Alan Linford was huts secretary of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club for fifteen years, its president 1982–84 and later its archivist; he has worked on the history of mountains and mountaineering as shown on postage stamps. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] YRC Journal 2012, 13(13) /library/10991/yrcj-2012;-13(13)

[2] YRC Journal 2009, 13(7) /library/11041/yrcj-2009;-13(7)

[3] YRC Journal 2012, 13(14) /library/11010/yrcj-2012;-13(14)

Barrister and Keighley solicitor, mayor of Keighley for four years, who spent every summer from 1891 to 1914 in the Alps or Norway and was on the first ascent of Eagle's Nest Ridge. He edited the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal and was the club's president from 1919 to 1922. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1938, 7(23) /library/11027/yrcj-1938;-7(23)

York businessman, chairman of Leak and Thorp, whose Alpine record ran from 1903 to 1925 and who joined the Alpine Club in 1925; he was the senior vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club when he died suddenly at Pontresina. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1932, 6(20) /library/10999/yrcj-1932;-6(20)

Chartered accountant and company secretary who was among the founders of the JMCS under the Narnain Boulder in 1925 and made the first ascent of Speirs' Variation on Crowberry Ridge in 1927. He joined the SMC in 1927 and served as Treasurer, Editor, Vice-President and President, holding the presidency in 1957; he was also secretary of the Scottish Ski Club and reached Kilimanjaro's summit in 1966. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 189 - Vol 36 - 1998 /library/7095/smcj-number-189---vol-36---1998

Called to the Bar, he became a King's Counsel and Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, and joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in its first year. He was President of the Club from 1902 to 1904. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 76 to 78 - Vol 13 - 1915 /library/6997/smcj-number-76-to-78---vol-13---1915

Bill Brooker was a leading figure in the post-war revival of Scottish mountaineering, making first winter ascents in the Cairngorms such as Eagle Ridge on Lochnagar and Mitre Ridge on Beinn a' Bhuird; he worked as a geography teacher and later in extra-mural studies at Aberdeen University. He was SMC President from 1972 to 1974, Editor of the Journal from 1975, and Honorary President from 1996 to 2011. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 203 – Vol 42 - 2012 /library/7109/smcj-number-203-–-vol-42---2012

William Douglas joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in December 1890, contributed over fifty articles and notes to its Journal and edited it for eighteen years. He climbed between 1895 and 1912 in Switzerland, the Dolomites, France, Italy, the Canadian Rockies, Norway and the Jura, including a traverse of the Meije, and the great boulder at the foot of the Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis is the Club's memorial to him. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 115 - Vol 20 - Apr 1933 /library/7021/smcj-number-115---vol-20---apr-1933

Aberdeen lawyer, a partner in his father's firm C. & P. H. Chalmers, and a member of the SMC and Cairngorm Club from 1896. He was SMC Vice-President from 1915 to 1919 and President from 1934 to 1936, compiled the index to SMC Journal vols 1-10 with James A. Parker, survived the 1902 Wetterhorn avalanche that killed J. H. Brown and the guide Knubel, and was Cairngorm Club President 1925-1927 and Secretary 1932-1949. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 142 - Vol 24 - Apr 1951 /library/7048/smcj-number-142---vol-24---apr-1951

English Lake District climber, hill walker, artist and illustrator. Heaton Cooper was one of the more notable English landscape watercolorists of the twentieth century. His crag illustrations illuminated Fell and Rock Climber's Club guidebooks before the adoption of photo diagrams.

William Henry Pearson was a Manchester botanist and an authority on liverworts, author of The Hepaticae of the British Isles. He did his scientific work in his spare time alongside his business, and the University of Manchester gave him an honorary M.Sc. He was an original member of the Rucksack Club, its second chairman of committee from 1904 and later a vice-president, and he died in Withington on 19 April 1923. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1924 /library/7691/rucksack-club-journal-2019

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Pearson