In reply to Doug:
> Way back when I was a teenager, I borrowed more or less every climbing related book that was in the local library. One was by John Disley & I still remember parts of it, particularly the section on hitch-hiking - at the time an essential skill for the budding climber.
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"Tackle climbing this way". I've still got my paperback copy. It starts with a youthful story about rushing up Snowdon (I think) at breakneck spread leaving the aged leader behind, and then running out of steam and being overtaken by the aged leader still going at the same steady pace. I always remember that lesson!
No mean performer on some major first ascents in Wales: Kaisergebirge Wall,Ribstone Crack et al...
RIP.