Climbers

Climber Name # Ascents Recorded Notes
Patrick Vonbrül 3
Paul Ross 3

Prolific and feisty Lake District and western USA activist from 1950s to 2010s. Also cafe and folk club proprietor and breeder of award-winning Jack Russel terriers.

References

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/aug/07/mountaineering-paul-ross-lake-district-borrowdale-keswick-utah-colorado-rock-climbing

[2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2010/10/paul_ross_-500th_new_route-_aged_73-58102

[3] https://footlesscrow.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-paul-ross-interviewpart-one.html

Paul Smith 3
Paul Twomey 3
Paul Williams 3

Rock climber, guidebook writer, catalyst, raconteur and man-about-Llanberis. Died after a fall whilst soloing Brown's Eliminate (E2).

Per Lindmark 3
Peter Greenwood 3

Yorkshire motor mechanic and builder with a brief but illustrious rock climbing career most notably in the English Lake District. One of the Bradford Lads, a loose collection of West Yorkshire climbers active in the immediate post World War Two period. He retired from climbing in the mid-1950s, donating his equipment to Don Whillans, returning in the late 1980s "half a million fags and 50,000 pints later."

...one of the boldest and most agile rock climbers in Britain in the 1950s. [1]

References

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/apr/20/peter-greenwood-obituary

Phil Gondoux 3

Horizontal cave mutant and developer of Targasonne

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DGn7xb0ovIr/

Philipp Göthert 3
Pierre Bollinger 3
Pietro Dal Prà 3

References

[1] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/interviews/pietro-dal-pra-the-mountain-from-all-perspectives.html

Rab Anderson 3
Rachel Slater 3

Rachel and her partner Tim Newton were killed in an accident on Ben Nevis in February 2016. [2]

References

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35888301

[2] https://rachslater.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/in-memorium/

Raleigh Simpson 3
Rannveig Aamodt 3
Ray Kay 3

Pioneer of adventurous Welsh rock climbing, usually onsight and often on suspect rock, notably on the Llŷn.

Adam Long:

If we were to judge ascents by their repeatability he would have been as famous as Ben Moon.[1]

Ray sadly died in a climbing accident in 2025.[2]

References

[1] https://ukbouldering.com/threads/rip.18343/page-66#post-710121

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/1520482525451568/posts/1910628503103633/

Rebekah Drummond 3
Rémi Duboz 3
Richard Davies 3
Rich Heap 3

References

[1] Interview with Adrian Berry February 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20061022044648/http://www.planetfear.com/article_detail.asp?a_id=453

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