All climbers

References

[1] Interview with Simon Lee for ukbouldering.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEfIwqQvk4c

[2] Write up on Big Bang by Chris Doyle, January 2011 https://doylosblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/ormesman-of-week-neil-carson-brit-makes.html

Harding had a brief but influential spell at the cutting edge of UK climbing in the years immediately post world war two. Armed with improved ex-military gear, including the first nylon dynamic ropes, he was responsible for a small number of hard-for-the time classic routes on peak gritstone and in North Wales. He was an engineer by trade and this, along with climbing in the eastern Alps and availability of army surplus hardware, made him more receptive to the use of pitons than his pre-war counterparts. Harding was noted for his proficiency at hand jamming although it seems unlikely that he originated this technique as some of his contemporaries suggested.

References

[1] https://rucksackclub.org/2023/04/14/a-dip-into-the-club-journals-from-1993-just-a-bit-difficult-by-peter-harding/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/19/mainsection.obituaries

Fontainebleau slab wizard.

References

[1] https://www.patreon.com/secretstonersclub/posts/perfect-to-past-164760134

British rock climber, alpinist and guide. Monks cut his teeth in the Bristol area in the 1970s, settled in Australia in the 1990s, but has climbed world-wide.

References

[1] https://www.alpin-ism.com/about/team/steve-monks

One of the world's most prolific bouldering developers. Thousands of first ascents in Japan, including Mizugaki, Ogawayama, Mitake, Mitsumine, Yaendani, and more.

Published the first bouldering guide in Japan in 1999: the 'Kuro-hon' or black book guide to Ogawayama, Mitake and Mitsumine.

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYuLRm3Xec