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Jim Perrin is a British Rock Climber and Travel Writer . As a writer he has made regular contributions to a number of newspapers and climbing magazines. As a climber he has developed many new routes, and made solo and free assents of great difficulty.

He won the Boardman Tasker Prize twice, first for ''Menlove'' (1985), his biography of John Menlove Edwards , and again for ''The Villain'' (2005) , a biography of Don Whillans .

For many years he has contributed the mountaineering obituaries for The Guardian (see eg the recent contribution on Brede Arkless ).


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Partial List of Books by Perrin listed by Amazon as in print (on 21/4/2006)

Menlove: Life of John Menlove Edwards (1993), The Ernest Press

The Villain : The Life of Don Whillans (2005), Hutchinson

Mirrors in the Cliffs (1999), Baton Wicks

Travels with the Flea: and other Eccentric Journeys (2003),

Snowdon: Biography of a Mountain (2006), Gomer Press

Spirits of Place (1997), Gomer Press

River Map (2001), Gomer Press