Climbers

References

[1] https://www.lasportiva.com/en/blog/ambassadors/francois-cazzanelli

François Savigny is the founder of EP Climbing.

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8d6e2HSVQA

Francis Sydney Smythe, English mountaineer, explorer, author, photographer and botanist.

During World War II Chapman was stationed in Singapore where he trained parties in guerilla warfare.

In what he later described as 'the mad fortnight' he and two companions, behind the Japanese lines, 'derailed seven or eight trains, severely damaged at least fifteen bridges, cut the railway line in about sixty places, damaged or destroyed some forty motor vehicles and killed or wounded somewhere between five and fifteen hundred Japs'. Later he was captured by the Japanese but after a series of dramatic adventures escaped to the coast. He spent 3 years as a fugitive in the Malayan jungle, returning to England in 1946. [1]

References

[1] Mountain 19 (1972), page 15

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRBkccWB4c

References

[1] Obituary by John Hunt in Mountain Issue 104, page 12 /library/11125/mountain-104