Falko
LocationSouth Yorkshire
Best Climbing Experience
Orion Face Direct with Peter Brashaw on a perfect day in the 1970s. The Frendo Spur as a first route in the Western Alps - also with Pete. Smiths Gully (Creag Meagaidh) with Alan Taylor in the 80s (a stunning, soaring, 4-pitch, 4-star route which Jimmy Marshall climbed in 1959 by step cutting). Red Edge, Black Sunday and Central Pillar (Esk Buttress) one sunny Saturday afternoon in May (1975) with Al Wildman. Up and down the Biancograt with Al in 1977. Surviving a retreat from the upper reaches of a stormy Cassin route (Badile) with Pete. Emerald Gully on Beinn Dearg with Yorkie (Nigel Robinson). My third outing on Mur y Niwl with Steve Mawson last autumn but, best of all, being able to climb midweek now that I have joined the ranks of the feckless hedonists a.k.a. the 'recently retired'.
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Photo Gallery
Terry Gifford, Mark Vallance and a Brocken Spectre on Reade's Route (220ft V Diff, 3-star classic), Crib Goch Buttress.
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Part of the Peak District National Park as seen from the top of Mam Tor
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The road to Mam Tor.
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Al Wildman on the Slab Pitch of Main Wall (465ft HS), Cyrn Las
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Terry Gifford 'bestriding the gulf like a colossus'.
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Not quite 'Styrofoam Ice' on Central Trinity
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The Snowdon horseshoe from Llynnau Mymbyr near Plas y Brenin
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Another Brocken Spectre in Snowdonia as Al Wildman tops out after soloing Central Trinity
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