Climbers from United Kingdom

References

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454003/

[2] https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/31/2/a-r-hinks-and-the-first-everest-expedition-1921/

[3] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/series/history/alexander_kellas_-_the_greatest_himalayan_mountaineer_you_may_never_have_heard_of-14612

Alexander Morrice Mackay, the Hon. Lord Mackay, was a lawyer from Aberdeenshire who climbed with Geoffrey Winthrop Young in the Alps, Wales and the Lakes around 1900, and with W. W. Naismith completed the last unclimbed section of the Cuillin Ridge; Mackay's Chimney on Salisbury Crags bears his name. He won the Scottish Lawn Tennis Singles Championship in 1905, 1906 and 1907, joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1898 and accepted a Vice-Presidency in 1929. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 147 - Vol 26 - May 1956 /library/7053/smcj-number-147---vol-26---may-1956

Born at Husabost in Skye, Alexander Nicolson was a scholar, Gaelic poet and advocate (1860) who served as Sheriff-Substitute of Kirkcudbright (1872-1885) and then at Greenock until 1889. He made many ascents in the Cuillin of Skye, some of them new, and Sgurr Alasdair is named after him; he was elected a Vice-President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in December 1892, a month before his death. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 7 to 12 - Vol 2 - 1892-1893 /library/6978/smcj-number-7-to-12---vol-2---1892-1893

Chemist, a lecturer at Liverpool University and later an assistant research manager at ICI Billingham, and a leader of the early Gaping Gill survey parties, trapped there for 36 hours by the flood of May 1909; president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club in the mid-1930s. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1960, 9(30) /library/11026/yrcj-1960;-9(30)

Alex Small wrote the article 'Agag's Groove' in the 1936 Journal and edited the club Bulletin in 1947. He was President of the SMC from 1974 to 1976. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

[1] SMCJ Number 122 - Vol 21 - Nov 1936 /library/7028/smcj-number-122---vol-21---nov-1936

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

[3] Officers lists in SMCJ Number 166 - Vol 30 - 1975 /library/7072/smcj-number-166---vol-30---1975

[4] SMCJ Number 167 - Vol 31 - 1976 /library/7073/smcj-number-167---vol-31---1976

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/in_focus/alex_ekins-17009

Alex Ferguson was born in Fallowfield and worked in textile testing, becoming deputy head of textiles at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Testing House. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1943 and was a strong rock climber, making the third ascent of Bow-shaped Slab on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu and leading Central Buttress on Scafell. He was vice-president in 1974 and 1980 and president in 1978. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1990 /library/7695/rucksack-club-journal-1990

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/ticklists/the_alf_bridge_challenge-5171

[2] Mountain 19 (1972), page 15

Alpine climber, especially in the Dolomites, elected to the Alpine Club in 1897; he succeeded William Cecil Slingsby as president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club in 1903. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1930, 5(18) /library/11013/yrcj-1930;-5(18)

Glasgow surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary and one of the three founders of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1889, for which he suggested the name. He was the Club's first Hon. Secretary (1889-1896), later Vice-President, President from 1899 to 1902, and a Trustee from 1906 until his death. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 139 - Vol 24 - May 1948 /library/7045/smcj-number-139---vol-24---may-1948

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

Sir Alfred Hopkinson was a lawyer and politician, vice-chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester until 1913 and later MP for the Combined English Universities. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1905, was knighted while its president, and in 1914 went to India as adviser to Bombay University. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1940 /library/7698/rucksack-club-journal-1940

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

English High Court judge and well-known Victorian mountaineer; president of the Alpine Club. [1]

References

[1] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wills

Served ten years on the Pinnacle Club committee, as meets secretary and then president from 2008, followed by vice-president and trustee. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

References

[1] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 26, 2003-2005 /library/9576/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-26-2003-2005

[2] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 27, 2006-2008 /library/9601/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-27-2006-2008

[3] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 28, 2009-2011 /library/9590/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-28-2009-2011

[4] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 29, 2012-2014 /library/9605/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-29-2012-2014

[5] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 30, 2015-2017 /library/9604/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-30-2015-2017

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/herstory_4_-_alison_hargreaves_climbing_her_mountain-15063

[2] Overlooked No More: Alison Hargreaves, Who Conquered Everest Solo and Without Bottled Oxygen, Obituary in the New York Times, March 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/obituaries/overlooked-alison-hargreaves.html

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/alison-hargreaves-climbs-everest-solo-1995