In reply to Sean Kelly:
This is Bob Aitken's brief obit sent out to SMC members.
He was quintessentially a Cairngorms man; his lifelong passion for the mountains underpinned his exceptionally long-term, sustained and hugely eclectic scientific work on the ecology of the mountains. His extensive and authoritative publications, ranging widely from grouse and ptarmigan to monitoring of paths and snowbeds, won him high scientific distinction. A key player in Cairngorms conservation, he was a major figure in the Lurcher’s Gully campaign in the early 1980s, and a founder Trustee of the John Muir Trust.
In the 1950s Adam did a lot of climbing with Tom Patey while Tom was compiling the first SMC Climber’s Guide to the Cairngorms (1961); later Adam wrote successive editions of the Club’s general guide The Cairngorms, which demonstrate his immense knowledge and affection for the range. He also made the first one-day ski traverse of the ‘Bix Six’ Cairngorms in 1962.