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'''Tom Patey''' (] — ] ]) was a ] ], ] and ]. Although he was a leading Scottish climber of his day, particularly excelling on ] routes, he his probably best known for his humorous writings about climbing, many of which were published posthumously in the collection ''One Man's Mountains''. |
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He was born in ] and educated in ] at ] and ]. He first became interested in climbing while he was in the ], but it was at the ], where he trained as a doctor, that he first revealed his full talent as an exploratory climber. |
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He climbed extensively in Scotland, as well as achieving notable ascents in the ] and the ], and in ]? he and the mountaineer ] were the first to climb ], a ] off the coast of ]. At the time of his death he was working as a local ] in ], in the far north-west of Scotland. He was killed ] from another sea stack off Scotland's northern coast. |
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==Bibliography== |
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*''One Man's Mountains'', Tom Patey, ], ISBN 0575013583. |
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