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Donald Desbrow Whillans (18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington on many new routes, and was considered the technical equal of both.
He lent me 100 french francs for petrol on the way back, but unfortunately he died before I could pay him back!!
13 de feb. de 2010 · The question is difficult to answer but we all love heroes – and anti-heroes – don’t we? Donald Desbrow Whillans was born in 1933 in Salford, a suburb of Manchester. He died of a major heart attack in his sleep in 1985. Suggested reading: Don Whillans: Portrait of a Mountaineer by Don Whillans and Alick Ormerod, 1971
15 de may. de 2020 · La figura de Don Whillans (1933-1985) ha tenido una enorme influencia en la comunidad del alpinismo mundial, desde su fallecimiento a los 52 años de un ataque al corazón. Y no solo por sus evidentes e incuestionables logros como alpinista y escalador, sino por encima de ello por el mito que se ha terminado por generar a su alrededor.
DON WHILLANS, who died suddenly on 4 August 1985 aged 52, was an exceptional figure among British mountaineers. His record of bold and innovative routes on British crags, in the mountains of Europe and $outh America and in the Himalaya was outstanding enough, but it was his dry humour, uncanny mountain sense and his projection of climbing as a ...
The 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition was a Himalayan climb that was the first to take a deliberately difficult route up the face of an 8,000-metre mountain. On 27 May 1970 Don Whillans and Dougal Haston reached the summit of Annapurna I, which at 26,545 feet (8,091 m) is the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif in Nepal.
3 de oct. de 2013 · 191K views 10 years ago. Don Whillans (18 May 1933 -- 4 August 1985) was an English rock climber and mountaineer. Born and raised in a two-up two-down house in Salford, Lancashire, he climbed...
