Talk:Joe Brown (climber)

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The description of the Old Man of Hoy is currently a bit garbled I think. Firstly, I believe that what the writer had in mind was the TV programme, not the FA.

Secondly Hamish MacInnes' guidebook credits Baillie, Patey and Bonnington with the FA of the East Face route in 1966 (by some accounts this was on TV), Brown & MacNaught-Davis with the FA of the South Face route in 1967, and Crew and Haston with the FA of the SE Arete also in 1967.

My dim recollection was that the TV referred to here, with Brown, was probably in 1967, of Brown and MacNaught-Davis _making_ their FA (and possibly of Crew and Haston making their FA, and also of Patey & Bonnington _repeating_ their 1966 FA). Bob aka Linuxlad 10:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

It was the right Ian McNaught-Davis that you linked too (Gowron 18:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC))

"An early climbing partner was Don Whillans, a fellow Mancunian builder's assistant (Brown has often incorrectly been described as a 'climbing plumber')" - except Whillans was a plumber, so describe him as a "fellow builder's assistant" is incorrect 195.149.63.142 11:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC)