In reply to UKC News:
Very sad news indeed. I had the privilege to meet Colin and Sue and climb with him in the late 1970s as I was renting a flat in the Towers at the time. I can vividly remember climbing Mojo at Craig y Forwyn with him as he very briefly gave me a lot of unwanted slack after I asked him to watch the rope on the traverse. We met again at Tremadog's Craig y Castell some years later; he was there with Sue and their daughter Delyth (aka 'the rock dancer's daughter'.) True to form, he pointed us at the first pitch of Tarantula as a better start to Tantalus, saying it was grossly overgraded and a 'piece of piss'. A little later I could hear him laughing at all the squawking going on about the lack of holds on the slab. Yes, very funny indeed......
I followed his bolting exploits in the slate quarries with great interest and later on had a couple of memorable balmy October days in Dali's Hole climbing Colin's routes side by side with Joe Brown, who was there climbing on his birthday two years running. Joe wasn't very complimentary about sport climbing in general despite clearly really enjoying himself. He very dryly dismissed Colin's bolting as the product of 'a hyperactive pensioner who has more money than sense'. Colin had sense though and it was a shame that his efforts to provide easy sport routes at Dali's were later abused and the bolts removed as a result.
Lovely tribute by Callum and I really enjoyed the video. It brought back some fond memories and it was nice to see that the self-effacing sense of humour still remained.
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