Kelly Harry Mills

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Biografie:
Harry Mills Kelly, who lived to the age of 96, and who was one of the great pioneers of the British rock climbing scene and at the centre of the group of Manchester climbers who wrote their names across the new route lists from the First World War to the early 1930s.
Starting in the gritstone areas he moved to the Lakes and, throughout the '20s, pioneered
numerous climbs, many of which, such as Moss Ghyll Grooves and Tophet Wall, have remained classics. Whilst he did climb elsewhere in Europe, his greatest love was for delicate climbing on British rock in plimsolls. He edited the Fell and Rock guides for many years and wrote articles for the journals of both that club and the Rucksack Club, retaining an interest in mountains and mountaineering to the end of his long life.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 86, 1981, Seite 263