Walter
Richardson
1934 - 2002 Index Page - Gallery 1 - Gallery 2 - Gallery 3 If there's something you want to add then let me know m.richardson@derby.ac.uk |
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Early in 2002 Walter started a hand-written account of his climbing: I started mountaineering
on a school holiday in Wales, Snowdonia, that was in 1947 June. The first
climb was 'Moel Siabod' a round top mountain, I remember the mist came down
and we had to take a compass bearing. |
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![]() Halfway up Snowdon |
Then there was Snowdon, a three hour climb, short trousers a cap, and ordinary walking shoes. It was this journey that started it all, making me think about the big rock faces all around me. |
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In time I progressed to
climbing harder things after being introduced by Paul Gardiner to Dave
Penlington, a man that rode big motorbikes and climbed the hard stuff. We
got on well, although he didn't say much, as time went by things improved,
which meant together we did some good climbs. |
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I was called to do National Service in the army. My first posting was to Germany, a place called "Lipstat". It was at weekends that we visited Winterberg, a ski resort. In the meantime my regiment was to be disbanded and I was posted to Hong-Kong far east. My first few weeks in Hong-Kong was spent in hospital with appendicitis then on convalescing at Freshwater Bay on Hong Kong island. |
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![]() Cornwall 1959 |
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