In reply to JimR:
There's some stories in Eric Byne's High Peak (they were frequent climbing partners). He did a winter ascent of Mam Tor main face, must have been one of the first, if not the first. Also a summer ascent of Back Tor Face in which the block he was standing on collapsed, leaving him hanging by one arm (ouch!). In 1930 he walked over the top of Five Clouds in the dark, falling 25 feet into boulders and getting away with a dislocated jaw and a broken rib. There's the story about rescuing the sheep on Alport Castles, and one about an epic blizzard on Kinder. He walked to Scotland and back from Sheffield on a budget of sixpence, singing in the street for funds. Perhaps gutsiest of all, in May 1939 he set off to walk round the world, getting to Naples by September ”despite many offers of marriage”, climbing Vesuvius, then being forced back to Sheff by the outbreak of WWII. Obviously quite a guy!
Edit: IIRC there's also a photo of him doing a winter ascent of Matterhorn Ridge in the Winnats
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