Climbers from United Kingdom

Town planner and magistrate, Lowstern hut warden, vice-president and secretary of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club; he died on the club's annual bike ride. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2012, 13(14) /library/11010/yrcj-2012;-13(14)

Edinburgh joiner, Clerk of Works, potter and silversmith who tutored pottery at Edinburgh College of Art. With Robert Grieve he made the first ascent of Needle's Eye Buttress on Beinn Fhada, Kintail, in June 1949. He joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1947, was a Vice-President from 1968 to 1970, and sang the Club Song at Annual Dinners for many years. [1]

References

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

References

[1] http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/news/up-close-and-personal/725-up-close-with-rob-collister

Edinburgh solicitor and mountaineer, an original member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, its vice-president 1895–97 and president from 1897, and president of the Climbers' Club 1907–09; he joined the Alpine Club in 1887. [1] [2]

References

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

[2] Climbers' Club Journal 1948 /library/7354/climbers-club-1948-journal

Robert died aged just 17 while climbing at Gogarth with Arnis Strapcans. Ken Wilson writing in Mountain 27:

In the North Stack area there was a serious accident on Spider's Web. Two young climbers, Arnis Strapcans (16) and Robert Brown (17), had overcome the first three pitches without undue difficulty but had located their stance, off route, above and to the left of the normal stance, which is just above the lip of the overhang. The normal final pitch moves right at this point and follows a VS crack on the Britomartis wall. Strapcans, however, mistakenly tried to force a more direct exit up the overhanging wall and steep rib above and left of the stance.

Brown was belayed on three pegs (in a corner crack). He was facing inwards and sitting astride a boss of rock. When Strapcans had only climbed a short distance up the pitch a spike (which held his only runner) crumbled under his feet and he fell. The strain came on the second, the pegs were plucked from the crack, and both climbers fell into the sea, a distance of about 100ft. Strapcans remained conscious and was thrown on to the rock below Genuflex by a big wave. Brown was unconscious, however, and although Strapcans tried to pull him out he was unable to get the body more than half out of the water. He therefore secured the rope to a bollard and soloed up the normal descent route to get help. He was so exhausted, however, that he collapsed at the North Stack quarry and slept the night in a derelict hut. The following morning, still in a shocked and exhausted condition, he made his way to the South Stack tea rooms. Rescuers were called out but on reaching the scene of the accident they found that Robert Brown's body had been washed away by the sea. [1]

References

[1] Mountain 27 (1973), page 13 /library/9631/mountain-27

Bob Chadwick, company lawyer and chairman of J. Hepworth & Son and of John Waddington, traversed the Cuillin Ridge in a day in 1961; he was president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club 1962–64. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2000, 12(13) /library/10959/yrcj-2000;-12(13)

Gordon Humphreys, grandson of Henry Humphreys, was an engineer who devised modular industrial robots; secretary of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club 1996–2008 and warden of Low Hall Garth, where he led the barn conversion. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 2017, 13(23) /library/11012/yrcj-2017;-13(23)

[2] YRC Journal 2012, 13(14) /library/11010/yrcj-2012;-13(14)

Town planner, Chief Planning Officer for Scotland (1960-1964), first Professor of Town and Regional Planning at Glasgow and first Chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board (1965-1970). A keen mountaineer, he was SMC President from 1964 to 1966. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Officers lists in SMCJ Number 156 - Vol 28 - May 1965 /library/7062/smcj-number-156---vol-28---may-1965

[2] SMCJ Number 157 - Vol 28 - May 1966 /library/7063/smcj-number-157---vol-28---may-1966

[3] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Grieve_(town_planner)