In reply to Rob Greenwood - UKClimbing:
> Ron is a regular at The Climbing Works in Sheffield. Still smiling, still good, and still as much a legend as he's ever been
Thanks for that. Got the impression from his book that he'd stopped and was just orienteering/running. Highlight of my climbing life was being at Froggatt one weekday in the mid 80s', no-one around, I was mucking about trying starts/soloing (pre-bouldering...), and I see a bloke in the distance soloing one route, then downclimbing the next one along, then soloing the next etc etc, until he gets close enough for me to see its RF. He downclimbs the route next to me, I set back and say `be my guest', and he flows up the route I've been faffing about on and downclimbs the next along. When he gets to the bottom he turns to me as says (by way of `explanation' for the ease of his ascent) "Oh, I've done that one quite often", to which I could only laugh and say "That'll be it!", as if familiarity with the route was the only thing separating our efforts. And off he went. Pure class.