Climbers

References

[1] What Ever happened to Mason Earle? by Meaghen Brown, February 2023 https://www.climbing.com/people/whatever-happened-to-mason-earle/

References

[1] Interview with fanatic-climbing.com, Jan 2025 https://fanatic-climbing.com/interview-mathieu-bouyoud-discret-et-talentueux-passionne-interview-mathieu-bouyoud-a-silent-and-passionate-crusher/

References

[1] https://threerockbooks.com/pierres-questions-for-michael-duffy-updated/

References

[1] https://gripped.com/profiles/mike-doyle-one-of-canadas-first-to-climb-5-14-is-still-pushing-it/

Interview with Björn Pohl at UKC https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2017/08/nicolas_januel_french_national_bouldering_team_coach-71233.

Guidebook writer, Mountain magazine contributing editor, president of BMC, climbing double for Sean Connery.

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/?doing_wp_cron=1768307556.0177059173583984375000

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

Not to be confused with the American climber of the same name.