Pekkie RIP

Originally from Middlesbrough (Like Liverpool but with ALL the windows put through). Took early retirement a few years ago and worked for several years as a consultant. Recently took on a new career as a writer of crime novels. Check my website www.petetrewin.com. As for climbing, seem to be getting more & more injuries so now confirmed grumpy old bumbly. Live 10 minutes from Pex Hill (where the name 'Pekkie' comes from) and have done the place to death.

Best Climbing Experience
Early days at Scugdale and the Wainstones on the North York Moors (Blue Remembered Hills...). Usual suspects like the Corner, White Slab, North Crag Eliminate, Vector. Probably best day Lubyanka - lovely day, hard climbing, exposure, everything in doubt until your fingers close over that finishing jug. Oh and strangely cruising Staminade at Pex on a slack top rope when I was really fit. Once I could romp sustained Pex 6b (that's English)... ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be...

Favourite Climbing-Related Discussion Topic
Easily bored so love anything controversial - bolts, top roping, climate change, evolution - I'll stick my oar in.

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• Pool of Life: Mood music 01-May-20
• CORONAVIRUS: A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR? 23-Mar-20
• House of the Rising Sun: A song that changed everything 29-Feb-20
• First review of Pool of Life 13-Feb-20
• Baked Beans and Brexit 31-Aug-19
• Natural Causes? Book Review of The Potter’s Field by Andrea Camilleri 01-Aug-19
• ‘ISHIGURO? A RATHER DULL READ WHICH I DITCHED HALFWAY THROUGH’ 11-Dec-18
• Shakespeare in the North 26-Mar-18
• Book Review: Democracy and its Crisis by A.C. Grayling 31-Jan-18
• Book review: Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir by Nick... 01-Dec-17

Articles by Pekkie

• ARTICLE: Scouse Climbers! Liverpool's Role in Climbing & Mountaineering History Dec/2022

Logbooks Volunteer
Moderator for 9 crags, checking missing climbs added to the logbooks: West Derby Cuttings, Irby Quarry, Taylor Park (Aviary Quarry), Neston Cuttings, Frodsham War Memorial, St James Gardens, Helsby Quarry, Widnes West Bank, Woolton Woods

Interests Outside Climbing
Bit of an eco-warrior. Love books and fancy myself as a bit of an intellectual. However, I was put in my place by Andy Popp when I entered into a debate with him on UKC on Proust. I beat a hasty retreat when it became obvious that Andy had actually read, and finished, 'A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu'. Oh, and member of RSPB - just love those Peregrines, Ring Ouzels and geese...?

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