SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 BY ANNA FEDOROVA Anna Fedorova gives her review of Bill Birkett and Bill Peascod’s book Women Climbing, a 200-year history of female achievement: Bill Peascod and Bill Birkett bring the 200-year history of women climbing to life in their book.Women...
Towards the end of January 2014 I was asked if I would like to take part in a BBC Countryfile Programme featuring the Langdale Valley and covering The Birkett’s involvement in rock climbing. Of course I was only too pleased to take part. Helen Skelton...
Clockwise from top left: Bill with Helen Skelton in the Old Dungeon Ghyll looking at Jim’s old climbing rope and some of Bill’s books. | Bill greeting Helen at the top of of Scout Crag. | Jim Birkett using a shoulder belay at the top of Gimmer Crag...
Mark Ward came over to the house and we talked about the Neolithic axe factory on Pike of Stickle. Seathwaite Tuff is a silica rich white volcanic rock that formed in a crater lake over a hundred million years ago. It appears as a two metre wide seam fifteen hundred...
Jim Birkett was heralded as one of the greatest rock climbers of his generation and again one of the very first, before the rise to prominence of Don Whillans and Joe Brown, to enter the sport of ‘Gentleman’ as a local from a working class background. Jim was a...
