Rock and Ice climbing club
- Rock and Ice climbing club
The Rock and Ice club was a British climbing club set up in in the 1950s based in Manchester.
The club members, that included notables like Don Whillans and Joe Brown, were at the forefront of British climbing at their time [cite book
title=The Villain, Portrait of Don Whillans
first=Jim
last=Perrin
year=2005
month=August
day=22
authorlink=Jim Perrin
publisher=Mountaineers Books
pages=p.91
isbn=978-0898869866
quote="...in terms of a significant series of new climbs, sustained over a number of years and coincident with the very highest standard of the day, there would be few willing to argue with any conviction against the pre-eminence throughout the decade of the members of the Rock and Ice Club."] . They were the first British climbers to compete on equal terms with continental alpinists since before the First World War. [cite book
title=A Brief History of British Mountaineering
last=Wells
first=Colin
year=2002
publisher=The Mountain Heritage Trust
isbn=978-0903908627
pages=71]
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