Jim Perrin

Jim Perrin, born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester on 30 March 1947 to a family of Huguenot descent, is an English rock climber and travel writer. As a climber he has developed many new routes on Derbyshire gritstone, in North Wales and on the sea cliffs of Pembrokeshire, and has made solo ascents of difficult established routes and free ascents of climbs previously done with aid in Wales and Scotland. He writes on travel, mountaineering, literature, art and the environment, is a country diarist for The Guardian and a columnist for The Great Outdoors, and has written many mountaineering obituaries. He has twice won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, for Menlove in 1985 and, jointly, for The Villain in 2005, and is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy.