Colin Wells - Who’s Who in British Climbing: Bite-sized Biographies of Dead Climbers ― and Some That Are Still Alive
It seems the British invented all the best sports on the planet (e.g. footie, cricket, conkers) and introduced them to the rest of the world, who then proceeded to beat the Brits hollow at their own games. Climbing is no exception. Nevertheless, those plucky islanders have continued their inexplicable obsession with giddy heights. A by-product of all this enthusiasm has been a truly remarkable bunch of climbing characters. Colin Wells has spent a ridiculous amount of time hanging out in musty libraries, sweet-talking frankly unattractive archivists and illegally photocopying museum documents in order to produce a book whose pages will be populated with the romantics, eccentrics and buffoons that have made British climbing what it is: dissolute and hungover most of the time, with odd unexpected bursts of brilliance. Colin shared some of the best from this work in progress.
This lunch was sponsored in part by Rocky Mountain Books. 

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