Ian Clough (1939-1970) was a British mountaineer who was killed on an expedition to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif Annapurna. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... If you were looking for the car, please see Mercury Mountaineer. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... In geology, a massif is a section of the Earths crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. ... Annapurna is a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the eight_thousanders. Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which is translated as Goddess of the Harvests. ...

Climbing career

Clough was born in the Yorkshire town of Baildon, near Bradford, and grew up to become one of the best British climbers of his generation. He made many difficult ascents in the Alps, including the Central Pillar of Frêney on Mount Blanc with Chris Bonington in 1961 and the North Face of the Eiger, again with Bonington, in 1962. He climbed widely in Britain too, publishing a guide to the Scottish Highlands in 1969, and in 1968 he and the mountaineer Tom Patey were the first to climb Am Buachaille, a sea stack off the coast of the Scottish county of Sutherland. His wife Niki was also a mountaineer. Yorkshire as a traditional county. ... Baildon is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, north of Bradford, and in the metropolitan borough of Bradford. ... Location within the British Isles Bradford is the major settlement in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, in the north of England in the county of West Yorkshire. ... The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. ... This article is about the Alpine mountain. ... Sir Chris Bonington Sir Christian John Storey Bonington (born August 6, 1934 in Hampstead), is a British mountaineer. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Eiger is a mountain in the Alps of Switzerland. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Tom Patey (1932 - 25th May 1970) was a Scottish climber, mountaineer and writer. ... Am Buachaille is a sea stack, or vertical rock formation, off the coast of the Scottish county of Sutherland. ... Stack, near Old Harry Rocks Old Harry Rocks A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic), or Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north and both Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south. ... Marriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

Expedition to Annapurna

In 1970, he took part in the expedition to Annapurna led by Chris Bonington, but after the successful ascent of the south face by Dougal Haston and Don Whillans he was killed by a falling sérac (ice-pillar) on Annapurna's lower slopes. Bonington dedicated the book he wrote about the expedition to Clough. Annapurna is a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m (26,538 ft), making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the eight_thousanders. Annapurna is a Sanskrit name which is translated as Goddess of the Harvests. ... Sir Chris Bonington Sir Christian John Storey Bonington (born August 6, 1934 in Hampstead), is a British mountaineer. ... Dougal Haston (1940-1977) was a Scottish mountaineer born in Currie near Edinburgh. ... Don Whillans (May 1933-1985) was a English rock-climber and mountaineer. ... A serac (originally from Swiss French sérac, a crumbly white cheese) is a steep ridge or pillar of ice formed between two crevasses of a glacier. ... Icicles A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Ice is the solid form of water. ... Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

1999 Memorial

In November 1999 a brass plaque was erected in Clough's memory at Annapurna base camp. The text of the memorial reads: November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. ... A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, is a plate of metal attached to a wall or other vertical surface and bearing text in memory of an important figure or event. ... Sculpture on the Discoveries Age and Portuguese Navigators in Lisbon, Portugal A memorial is an object served as a memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. ...

The plaque was commissioned by Kelvin Kent, who had been base camp manager on the expedition. An earlier memorial at the site is an inscription reading "Ian Clough, killed May 30, 1970", cut into rock with an accompanying message in a local language shortly after Clough's death. Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental. ...

Bibliography

• Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Ian Clough 1969
• Winter Climbs: Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Ian Clough (ed. Alan Kimber) 1981
• Annapurna South Face, Chris Bonington 1971 (book dedicated to Clough's memory)

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External link

Story about the memorial to Ian Clough in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus