Al Alvarez

AL ALVAREZ, rock-climber and man-of-letters. BMC Conference, Buxton March 2nd. 1974
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© JOHN.CLEARE/ Mountain.Camera Picture Library

We regret to announce that Al Alvarez died on Monday 23rd September. We offer our condolences to his family and friends.

Al was a member of the Club for many years. As well as a rock climber Al was a writer, critic and poetry editor of the Observer best known for The Savage God, a meditation on literary suicide. An Obituary has been published in the Guardian …

AL ALVAREZ, writer, critic, poet and rock-climber, fights his way up ” MPP” – a very hard climb on the crag of Dinas Mot high above the Llanberis Pass in the heart of Snowdonia, North Wales. June 27. 1965.
©JOHN.CLEARE/MOUNTAIN.CAMERA Picture Library