Climbers from United Kingdom

Author of Crag and Hound in Lakeland, British Mountaineering and Mountaineering Ventures, who left the War Office to write; a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1]

At length I have come to the conclusion that there must be two kinds of ordinary mountain limestone, one that I know and one that I do not, and the latter is the stuff that is good to climb on. [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1934, 6(21) /library/10966/yrcj-1934;-6(21)

[2] One Summer /library/42/one-summer Unclear where the quote originated from.

Engineer and ICI sales manager, president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club through the Second World War; he was made an honorary member of the Société Spéléologique de France in 1946. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1968, 10(34) /library/10983/yrcj-1968;-10(34)

Colin Bent Phillip, son of the artist John Phillip, was a painter of the Scottish Highlands who studied at the University of St Andrews and spent his life wandering, sketching and painting the hills, collecting from old people place-names that were not on the Ordnance maps. [1]

References

[1] Obituary by J. N. Collie in SMCJ Number 114 - Vol 19 - Nov 1932 /library/7020/smcj-number-114---vol-19---nov-1932

A distinguished academic and educationalist, he made first ascents including Slow March and Far West Buttress on Beinn an Dothaidh with Colin Stead and Turf Walk on Aonach Mor with Roger Everett, and organised the Rannoch club. He joined the SMC in 1973 and was Vice-President from 1991 to 1993. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 206 – Vol 43 - 2015 /library/7112/smcj-number-206-–-vol-43---2015

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/rock_talk/colin_downer_rip-790639

Danish-born textile technologist turned arboriculturist, a founder member of the Arboricultural Association and Honorary Danish Vice-Consul for Bradford and Leeds; a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2007, 13(3) /library/10956/yrcj-2007;-13(3)

[2] Membership statistics in YRC Journal 2007, 13(4) /library/10998/yrcj-2007;-13(4)

Master mariner and guideless Alpine climber, assistant secretary of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club (1953–54), who led its 1957 Jugal Himal expedition and was killed there by an ice avalanche; the Lowstern hut is his memorial. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary and expedition account in YRC Journal 1958, 8(29) /library/11011/yrcj-1958;-8(29)

[2] YRC Journal 2020, 14(3) /library/10978/yrcj-2020;-14(3)

Brother of the mountaineer Geoffrey Hastings, with whom he fixed the iron ladder in the Gavel Pot stream passage in 1885; a noted cave photographer and vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club, who declined its presidency because of deafness. [1]

References

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

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/rock_talk/rip_dave_almond-788141