In reply to Greenbanks:
Hamish MacInnes, Ian Clough, Peter Harding, John Syrett, Pete Minks, Stephen Venables, Ed Douglas (did a rather scary Ghyll scramble with him in Lakes), Rebecca Stevens, Norman Croucher, Richard McHardy, Tut Braithwaite, Johnny Dawes (bouldering), John Allen (bouldering ... OK, this was ridiculous because they were in an utterly different league), tried one or two boulder problems Ben Moon was doing, ditto Paul Pritchard ... couldn't leave ground ..., Brian Blessed (hillwalking), Griff Rhys Jones (hillwalking), Dennis Davis (hillwalking), Joe Brown i know moderately well over the years, haven't climbed with him as such but was closely involved with him when doing the Right Unconquerable shot for my Peak book, John Beatty, and shared belays several times with Al Rouse in 1968 when he too was starting climbing in N Wales.