Climbers / Index

Climbers from United Kingdom

Ordered by the number of ascents recorded.

Climber Name # Ascents Recorded Notes
Jon de Montjoye 0

North Wales and Pembroke activist of the 1980s turned mountain guide based in the French Alps.

Jon Griffith 0
Jon Partridge 0
Jon Ratcliffe 0
Joseph Collier 0

Joseph Collier was a surgeon (F.R.C.S.) and a leading rock climber of the early 1890s, making Collier's Chimney in Moss Ghyll, Collier's Climb on Scafell and the complete ascent of Piers Ghyll in 1892-93. He joined the Alpine Club in 1893, climbed widely in the Tirol and Dolomites and visited the Caucasus in 1894. His remarks at a Yorkshire Ramblers' Club dinner prompted the founding of the Rucksack Club, and he was its president when he died in October 1905. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1905 /library/7679/rucksack-club-journal-1905

Joseph Gibson Stott 0

Joseph Gibson Stott was the first Honorary Editor of the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal and wrote 'The Club Song' still sung at the Annual Dinner. A passionate hill-walker with a craze for night walking, he spent nearly fifty years abroad and died in Melbourne.

[1]; see also SMCJ Number 119 - Vol 20 - Apr 1935 [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 126 - Vol 21 - Nov 1938 /library/7032/smcj-number-126---vol-21---nov-1938

[2] SMCJ Number 119 - Vol 20 - Apr 1935 /library/7025/smcj-number-119---vol-20---apr-1935

Joseph Murison Davidson 0

Banker and Alpine climber who traversed La Meije in 1910 and sat on the Alpine Club committee; he was president of both the Wayfarers' Club and the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1952, 7(26) /library/11029/yrcj-1952;-7(26)

Joseph Walmsley 0

Joe Walmsley was from Salford and worked as a mechanical engineer at Metro Vickers and later in the nuclear power industry. He led the 1957 Masherbrum expedition, which reached a high point a few hundred feet below the summit, and the 1961 British-Nepali expedition that made the first ascent of Nuptse. He was president of the Rucksack Club in 1966-67 and president of the British Mountaineering Council in 1979-82. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 2017 /library/7734/rucksack-club-journal-2017

Josh Hadley 0
J Sheppard 0
J. Stanley Stewart 0

Lawyer, member of the GUM Club and the JMCS, who climbed in the Alps, including the Brenva face of Mont Blanc by the Sentinelle Rouge, and completed his Munros the year before he died. He joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1952 and was Hon. Secretary (the obituary gives 1958 to 1967). [1]

References

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

Jules Cartwright 0

Jules Cartwright was a british climber and mountain guide. He died in 2004 while guiding a client on the Piz Badile.

Julian Anthoine 0

Mo reportedly requested that his ashes be flushed down the loo at the Alpine Club. [1]

References

[1] Wells, Colin. Who's who in British Climbing: Bite-sized Biographies of Dead Climbers - and Some that are Still Alive. United Kingdom: Climbing Company, 2008.

Julie-Ann Clyma 0
Julie Tullis 0

British mountaineer and filmmaker. Started climbing on the sandstone outcrops of south-east England in the Tunbridge Wells area and progressed to climbing and filming on several Himalayan 8000m peaks. She died descending from the summit in the 1986 K2 disaster.

Karen Darke 0
Katharine Chorley 0
Katie Corbett 0

Dr C. L. (Katie) Corbett, one of the earliest women doctors (M.B., Manchester, 1905), served 32 years in Lancashire's child welfare department and went to Serbia with the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit in the First World War. A founder member of the Pinnacle Club, she was its treasurer from 1923, its president from 1929 and treasurer again after the Second World War. [1]

References

[1] In Memoriam in Pinnacle Club Journal No. 9, 1959-1960 /library/9600/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-09-1959-1960

Keith Lawder 0

Keith Macleod Lawder, Rear Admiral RN, a veteran of Jutland, was custodian of the Bosigran Count House for eleven years and a Climbers' Club vice-president 1960–63. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Climbers' Club Journal 1986-87 /library/7420/climbers-club-1986-87-journal

Keith McCallum 0

Keith McCallum was British climber who operated in the 1960s. He claimed a series of new routes in North Wales which, upon closer inspection from contemporaries such as Pete Crew and Ken Wilson, turned out to be fabricated.

References

[1] Alpine Journal 2007 131-136 Gillman Controversies

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