In reply to Mick Ward:
Quiet spoken yet driven. As Strepadair said;
. competence on the mountains which would be hard to equal .
When the chips were down he would never flap just get another brew going on a bivvi or encourage the rest of the party.
Never up his own arse either, met him in Glencoe in the off season roadsweeping, haven given up a job pushing barrows of shoddy round the local mill in Baildon so he could take advantage of the weather in Glencoe. Gave him a lift back home after our holiday to meet his GF for a couple of days.