Was that the chap who did High Neb Buttress a century or so ago? If so the guidebook mentioned he was a Norwegian doing something like an apprenticeship in the steel industry in Sheffield for a number of years IIRC.
Peak Rock has a section on him, "Harry Kelly and Ivar Berg: Two Gritstone Tigers". He was a Norwegian who only lived in England for two years and was a friend of Alf Schaanning, who introduced him to climbing.
Does anyone know if carried on climbing back in Norway? At least in the North, so much of the early ascents were done by visiting Brits. From memory there didn't seem to be too much activity done by Norwegians until post WWII.
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