Climbers from United Kingdom

Charles Herbert Pickstone was a solicitor practising near Manchester and active in the Rucksack Club from its first night, its first Chairman of Committee and later its president. He climbed the Obergabelhorn, Rothorn, Aletschhorn and Rimpfischhorn in Switzerland, but mostly walked and scrambled in Wales, the Lake District and Scotland. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1929 /library/7717/rucksack-club-journal-1929

Charles Pilkington was a colliery director and a pioneer of guideless climbing in the Alps, including guideless ascents of the Barre des Ecrins and La Meije. He was among the first to explore the Cuillin of Skye and climbed the Inaccessible Pinnacle in 1880, and was President of the Alpine Club. He was also a president of the Rucksack Club. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1919 /library/7632/rucksack-club-journal-1919

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pilkington_(mountaineer)

Army officer who served in the South African War and the First World War, three times Mayor of Shrewsbury and High Sheriff of Shropshire; a skier and a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club, which he joined in 1908. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1924, 5(16) /library/10992/yrcj-1924;-5(16)

On the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club's first two committees and then its treasurer, the club's camping expert and a supporter of the pot-hole campaigns of 1896–99, notably Rowten Pot in 1897; later a vice-president and, from 1923, an honorary member. [1] [2]

References

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

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

Climbers' Club member from 1899, honorary librarian 1902–08, on the committee 1904–07 and vice-president 1923–26, and later an honorary member. [1] [2]

References

[1] Climbers' Club Journal 1905 Vol.7 No.27 /library/7362/climbers-club-1905-vol.7-no.27-journal

[2] Notice in Climbers' Club Journal 1963 /library/7346/climbers-club-1963-journal

Mathematics and French teacher at Naish House Preparatory School, Burnham-on-Sea, and a member of the Alpine Club, who joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1926. He traversed the Matterhorn up the Zmutt ridge and down the Hornli with J. H. B. Bell in 1928, was badly injured on the Brenva glacier in 1929, and edited the Journal from 1932 to 1935. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 152 - Vol 27 - May 1961 /library/7058/smcj-number-152---vol-27---may-1961

Proprietor of the Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel, which he made the headquarters of Welsh climbing, leader of its mountain rescue team for over twenty years (BEM 1956) and Climbers' Club vice-president 1976–79. [1]

References

[1] Obituary and tribute in Climbers' Club Journal 1992 /library/7392/climbers-club-1992-journal

Anglo-American climber, Alpinist, climbing historian and author.

References

[1] https://gripped.com/profiles/iconic-alpinist-and-author-chris-jones-dies/

[2] https://www.marlburianclub.org/2025/07/chris-jones-obituary/