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About the Author

Born into a Lancashire mining family, I was destined for employment with the National Coal Board, but ‘escaped’ by securing a job in the Town Clerk’s office in St Helens. Rising to become Deputy Town Clerk in Bangor, North Wales, and then Leigh in Lancashire, I spent thirty years in the cloisters of local government. Much of it, looking back, was professionally enjoyable, but compared with what I do now, it was like a very long prison sentence for a crime I hadn’t committed.

My interest in Snowdonia began in 1970 when I moved to live and work in Bangor. With the Carneddau in view from my living room window, and far too much of a temptation to resist, I soon became a voluntary warden in the Snowdonia National Park. It was here in Snowdonia that I learned and then honed the crafts and skills of hillwalking, building a foundation of experience on which my career (and survival) has rested. My first book was The Summits of Snowdonia, published in 1984, which was followed a year later by The Mountains of Wales, which took me a little further afield.