Jimmy Jewell

Philip "Jimmy" Jewell (1953 to 1987) was a British rock climber and free soloist, active in the 1970s and 1980s. Born in South Wales and raised partly in Ferndale before his family moved to Birmingham, he joined the Birmingham Cave and Crag Club and led Cenotaph Corner at Dinas Cromlech within eighteen months of first visiting Llanberis. On 16 April 1978 he made the first ascent of The Flytrap at Gogarth with Joe Brown and D. Cuthbertson. He featured in the climbing film Total Control, free soloing Left Wall six times, and in April 1987 climbed eight Extreme routes in a single morning. A photograph of him free soloing The Axe at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu became the cover of the 1989 Cloggy guidebook. He died on 31 October 1987 after falling while soloing at Tremadog. A large breakfast at Pete's Eats in Llanberis is named the Big Jim in his honour.