Paul Pritchard

Paul Pritchard (born 1967 in Bolton, Lancashire) was one of the leading British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s. He started climbing at 16 in his native Lancashire, and in 1986 moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of the Llanberis quarries and on the sea cliffs at Gogarth. He gained a reputation for climbing hard and very poorly protected routes such as Super Calabrese (E8 6b) at Gogarth, still considered one of th... more

Date of birth:

  • 1967 (age 42 years)

Country of nationality:

Person

Gender:

top ↑

We can also tell you Paul Pritchard is a…

If you know more about Paul Pritchard, you can add more facts here »

Similar topics in Freebase

  • John Hunt, Baron Hunt

    John Hunt, Baron Hunt

    Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt KG, PC, CBE, DSO, (22 June 1910 – 8 November 1998) was a British army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest. Hunt was born in Simla, British India on 22 June 1910, the son of Captain Cecil Edwin...
  • John Sumner

    John Sumner

    John (Fritz) Sumner (b. Blackburn 13 March 1936, d. 2004) was the pre-eminent exploratory climber in his chosen domain of Mid Wales, climbing cutting-edge routes on the remote crags and cliff-faces south of southern Snowdonia starting in the mid-1950s.
  • George Mallory

    George Mallory

    George Herbert Leigh Mallory (June 18, 1886 – June 8/June 9, 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. On the third expedition, in June 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared somewhere...
  • Leslie Stephen

    Leslie Stephen

    Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Stephen was born at Kensington Gore in London, the brother of James Fitzjames Stephen and son of Sir James Stephen. His family had belonged...
  • Oscar Eckenstein

    Oscar Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 1921) was an English rock-climber and mountaineer. He was one of the few people who readily climbed with Aleister Crowley, with whom he made an early expedition to K2. Crowley, in his Confessions, praises Eckenstein in several passages, mentioning his gymnastic...
  • Alan Rouse

    Alan Paul Rouse (December 19, 1951 - August 10, 1986) was the first British climber to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, K2, but died on the descent. Rouse was born in Wallasey and began climbing at the age of 15, soon climbing many of the most difficult routes in North...
  • Simon Yates

    Simon Yates (born 1963) aka "the man who cut the rope" is a British mountaineer best known through the book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, and the film of the same name. Touching the Void recounts the 1985 ascent by Yates and Simpson of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash...
  • George Band

    George Christopher Band OBE (born 1929) is a British mountaineer. Having started climbing in the Alps while a student at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was the youngest person on the 1953 Everest expedition where Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first successful ascent of the peak. Two...
  • Don Whillans

    Don Whillans (18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer. Born and raised in a two-up two-down house in Salford, Lancashire, he climbed with both Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both. He was an apprentice...
  • Chris Bonington

    Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CBE (born 6 August 1934 in Hampstead, London) is a British mountaineer. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna. Educated at University College School in...

You can help improve this topic by adding more facts here

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Paul Pritchard was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution