Climbers from United Kingdom

Served on Arctic convoys in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, for which he received the Ushakov medal, and was later awarded the Légion d'honneur; editor of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Journal and the club's president 1988–90. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2016, 13(22) /library/10987/yrcj-2016;-13(22)

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

Alan Deane was an actuary, a good rock climber and a strong walker. He became the Rucksack Club's outdoor organiser within two years of joining and was known for his careful records. In 1937 he climbed in the Lofoten Islands, including an ascent of Stedtind and the first British traverse of Strandaatind. After the war he joined the civil service in London, was secretary of the London Section from 1956 to 1961, and died on 8 January 1977. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1976 /library/7703/rucksack-club-journal-1976

References

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/alan-hankinson-rkpnjcqdk76

T. Alan Kay, a long-distance backpacker, organised and led the trek of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club's 1995 Jugal Himal expedition; he was the club's treasurer 1990–98 and president 2002–04. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] YRC Journal 1996, 12(5) /library/11006/yrcj-1996;-12(5)

[2] YRC Journal 2017, 13(23) /library/11012/yrcj-2017;-13(23)

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

Fell-walker, a member of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club from 1912 and its longest-serving member when he died; vice-president after the Second World War. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1970, 10(35) /library/11022/yrcj-1970;-10(35)

References

[1] https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2018/07/hevy-duty-climb-eat-dance-repeat-the-life-of-a-squamish-icon/

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/off_belay/alasdair19_rip-789078

[2] https://stlukestribute.org.uk/pages/alasdair-buchanan/

Alastair Lee is a British film maker. He runs Posing Productions and the Brit Rock Film Tour.

Albert Ronald Chapman, founder of the road-surfacing firm Chapman Ryan, was an Alpine Club member who climbed in the Alps and made Himalayan trips including the 1995 Yorkshire Ramblers' Club Jugal Himal expedition; he joined the club in 1955 and was its president 2000–02. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2021, 14(4) /library/10989/yrcj-2021;-14(4)

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

Albert Dale worked for the Post Office and later Customs and Excise in Manchester, served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and spent three years in Italian prisoner-of-war camps. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1946 and was a member for 66 years. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 2012 /library/7696/rucksack-club-journal-2012

Caver and cave photographer of the Oldham engineering family who with Harold Armstrong designed and built the Gaping Gill winch of 1921; vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club through the Second World War. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1979, 11(38) /library/10960/yrcj-1979;-11(38)

Sir Alexander Christison, 2nd Baronet, was an army surgeon who spent most of his career in India, rising to Surgeon General for the North-West Provinces, and later President of the Royal Victoria Hospital from its foundation in 1887. He was one of the first Vice-Presidents of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Alexander_Christison,_2nd_Baronet

[2] SMCJ Number 19 to 24 - Vol 4 - 1896-1897 /library/6980/smcj-number-19-to-24---vol-4---1896-1897

[3] SMCJ Number 87 to 88 - Vol 15 - 1919 /library/7001/smcj-number-87-to-88---vol-15---1919

THE accident of Boxing Day, 1903, has deprived the Climbers' Club, not only of a promising recruit, but of a man of rare character. Alexander Goodall was one of those who insensibly and unobtrusively win the esteem and affection of all who have the privilege of associating with them. Young as he was, he had already left his impress on the community in which he lived, and the spontaneous tributes of regret and respect which came from the pulpits of St. John's and Crosthwaite churches may be taken as the expression of the feelings of Keswick.

On the 26th December last Mr. Goodall made the ascent of Scawfell Pinnacle, by the Slingsby Chimney, in company with Mr. F. Botterill, of Leeds. It may be remembered that at Whitsuntide, 1903, Mr. Botterill did two pioneer climbs, one of first class severity, on Scawfell, besides leading up Savage Gully.

Having completed the climb, the two walked to the Scawfell Cairn to watch the sunset, and then returned, intending to descend by the easy Deep Ghyll.

Deep Ghyll is a vast chasm which cuts deeply into the Scawfell Crags on the west side of the Pinnacle. It is broken by two well defined, imposing pitches, and at the top it bifurcates. The bed of the western branch is somewhat concave in shape. The east branch was full of snow lying at a steep angle. Some distance down there was a patch of bare scree.

Mr. Goodall, who was evidently unused to snow and ice work, took the ice-axe and attempted to glissade down the steep snow-slope at the head of the gully. He appears to have lost his footing and come to a momentary halt in a sitting posture at the patch of scree. Here he lost his grasp of the axe, and, being unable to regain his footing, slid downwards and fell over the rocks into Lord's Rake, being killed instantly in his fall.

Mr. Botterill was now in a terrible position. He had no axe, darkness was coming on apace, and his nerves must have been terribly shaken. He first endeavoured to find the exit of Lord's Rake, but, failing to do this, he returned to Deep Ghyll. He then kicked steps down to the scree patch, where he was fortunate enough to find the ice-axe which Mr. Goodall had driven deeply in. Then, with great caution, he succeeded in cutting his way down to Lord's Rake. The total descent occupied three hours. It was a fine feat of skill and coolness under trying circumstances.

The folly of glissading in such places as Deep Ghyll, where a slip must involve the risk of disastrous consequences, cannot be too strongly condemned. To quote from a well-known authority on snowcraft*:—'The delights of a glissade must not be indulged in without careful reference to two things—first, the condition of the slope; and next, the state of the ground below it. It is never safe to glissade down any slope where the progress cannot be very quickly arrested. Where cracks are seen on the surface, or where rocks jut up through the snow, a glissade is not safe, and on an icy slope is mere foolhardiness; for here the traveller can neither control his pace nor arrest his descent, . . . Glissading down a gully, however good the condition of the snow, is seldom prudent.'

Mr. Dent in the Badminton Mountaineering*.

References

[1] Climbers' Club 1904 Vol.6 No.23 (1904) /library/7446/climbers-club-1904-vol.6-no.23-journal

Chartered accountant, grandson of Lord Provost Sir George Harrison, who chaired Standard Life and was a founder of the Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland and a leading figure in forming the National Trust for Scotland. He joined the SMC in 1918, climbed guideless in the Alps with Frank Smythe, was Secretary from 1931 to 1935 and President from 1945 to 1948, and was Honorary President for some 21 years. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 180 - Vol 34 - 1989 /library/7086/smcj-number-180---vol-34---1989