Harold Drasdo

Harold Drasdo, born on 21 February 1930 and died on 3 September 2015, was an English rock climber, writer and educationalist. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, he began climbing just after World War II and became a founding member of the loose group of young climbers known as the Bradford Lads. He climbed in the 1940s and 1950s with leading northern climbers including Joe Brown and members of the Rock and Ice Club, often with his brother Neville, and the two were the first climbers to explore the Poisoned Glen in Donegal. He wrote the first Fell and Rock Climbing Club guide to the eastern crags of the Lake District in 1957, was the first climber to write both English and Welsh guidebooks, and spent twenty years as Chief Instructor of the Towers Outdoor Education Centre at Capel Curig.