Ken Wilson

Ken & Gloria Wilson

Ken & Gloria Wilson

Ken Wilson one the most influential people in British climbing in the late 20th Century has died. Ken as the editor of Mountain magazine was the conscience and mentor of British climbing for a whole generation of climbers, his influence was felt across the world. Though often a controvertial figure, we all owe him a great debt. For many younger climbers his great legacy will be the books, all were fantastic, they became the ultimate tick lists. He attended CC AGMs just about every year, and could be depended upon to give you a hard time if you didn’t fulfill his expectations about what the CC should be doing. The AGMs lost some of their lustre when he was no longer able to attend.

Our thoughts are with his wife Gloria and his family.

A number of people have been chasing details for Ken WIlson’s funeral arrangements.

The intention is to have a quiet (i.e. private) family cremation once all necessary red tape is sorted. We don’t expect any announcement of details beforehand.

Ideas for a fitting celebration of his life are already being bounced around in the climbing community and will no doubt be well publicised in due course.

Vic Odell

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One comment on “Ken Wilson
  1. avatar Iain Peters says:

    A huge loss not only to an older generation of climbers such as myself, but as Vic points out the legacy of his books, his lifelong support for the integrity and principles of trad or adventure climbing, are as important today as they were back in the 60s and 70s. He may have ruffled more than a few establishment feathers, (and some not so establishment; I can remember long late night phone calls when I was informed in no uncertain terms how I should write a guidebook or edit a newsletter), but without his very vocal campaigning 40 or more years ago on behalf of women being invited to join the CC the misogynistic elder brotherhood might well have held sway for much longer. RIP Ken.

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