Posted by andy bolger on December 15, 2011 at 14:02:00 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: Skiing posted by John Nichols on December 15, 2011 at 05:21:59:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Harry_Griffin
Harry Griffin was a member of the 'Coniston Tigers' an informal mountaineering group active in the 20s and 30s. (The time of our heroes) He was a contributor to the Guardian's (formerly the Manchester Guardian AR's paper) Country Diary column (every other Monday if my memory is correct with a piece about the Lakes until his death when he was in his nineties. ). His pieces have been collected into several delightful books about mountaineering in general and the Lakes in particular. Among other achievements he pioneered skiing in the Lakes.