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Revision as of 04:11, 1 June 2006 by Tban (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Tom Patey (1932 — 25 May 1970) was a Scottish climber, mountaineer and writer. Although he was a leading Scottish climber of his day, particularly excelling on winter 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.
He was born in Scotland and educated in Aberdeen at Ellon's Academy and Robert Gordon's College. He first became interested in climbing while he was in the Scouts, but it was at the University of Aberdeen, where he trained as a doctor, that he first revealed his full talent as an exploratory climber.
He climbed extensively in Scotland, as well as achieving notable ascents in the Alps and the Himalayas including the first ascent of the Muztagh Tower (7273m) with John Hartog in 1956. In 1968? he and the mountaineer Ian Clough were the first to climb Am Buachaille, a sea stack off the coast of Sutherland. At the time of his death he was working as a local GP in Ullapool, in the far north-west of Scotland. He was killed abseiling from another sea stack off Scotland's northern coast.
Bibliography
- One Man's Mountains, Tom Patey, 1971, ISBN 0575013583.
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