Climbers from United Kingdom

Gordon Adshead was a Rucksack Club officer, its president in 1988, and a hill-bagger, completing his list of Munros in 1987. He led the club's igloo meets on Cairngorm in 1984 and Cairn Toul in 1987 and later looked after the club archives. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Rucksack Club Journal 1988 /library/7686/rucksack-club-journal-1988

[2] Rucksack Club Journal 1984-1985 /library/7726/rucksack-club-journal-1984-1985

[3] Rucksack Club Journal 2008 /library/7722/rucksack-club-journal-2008

References

[1] https://www.gordonstainforth.co.uk/

The nickname Streaky comes from his time training on the Leeds wall where he would climb without chalk, leaving the holds streaky with sweat.

Manchester based climber and guidebook writer specialising in peak limestone. Died in an avalanche on Chew Valley.

References

[1] https://www.doveheritage.com/avalanche/

References

[1] Operation Moffatt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAckXatb3s4

Climbers' Club president 2004–07 and later a secretary of its Publications Sub-Committee. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

[1] Climbers' Club Journal 2004-05 /library/7481/climbers-club-2004-05-journal

[2] Climbers' Club Journal 2006-07 /library/7477/climbers-club-2006-07-journal

[3] Climbers' Club Journal 2008-10 /library/7442/climbers-club-2008-10-journal

[4] Climbers' Club Journal 2019-20 /library/7371/climbers-club-2019-20-journal

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/in_focus/hamish_frost-16774

Doctor in Stratford and leading British Alpine climber of the early 1950s; elected to the Climbers' Club in 1950, he was its president in the early 1970s and saw to it that women were admitted. He died after a fall on Pordenack. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Climbers' Club Journal 1997 /library/7471/climbers-club-1997-journal

References

[1] https://youtu.be/uFywFBM3cn4?is=JtDnzKG94Tc8ZGtV

Re-arranged the Gaping Gill winch to take a new engine, and as president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club (1946–48) saw the idea of a club hut, Low Hall Garth, conceived. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1962, 9(31) /library/10979/yrcj-1962;-9(31)

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

Barrister on the Northern circuit and Mayor of Southport in 1912–13, a geologist and cave surveyor, notably in Ireland at Mitchelstown; vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club, he declined its presidency in 1936 on health grounds. [1]

References

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

Harold Baily Dixon was Professor of Chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, from 1886 to 1922, known for his research on gas explosions, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He climbed in Switzerland and made exploratory climbs in the Canadian Rockies, joined the Alpine Club in 1894, and was the first president of the Rucksack Club. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1931 /library/7683/rucksack-club-journal-1931

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