Jim Perrin

Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947) is an English rock climber and travel writer. He was born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester, England. As a writer, he has made regular contributions on travel, mountaineering, literature and the environment to a number of newspapers and climbing magazines. As a climber, he has developed many new routes, particularly in North Wales and on the sea cliffs of Pembrokeshire, as well as making solo ascents of a number of difficult established routes.

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• Jim perrin interviewed by myrddyn phillips
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He has won the Boardman Tasker prize twice, first for Menlove (1985), his biography of John Menlove Edwards, and again as joint winner (alongside Andy Cave's 'Learning to Breathe) for The Villain (2005), a biography of Don Whillans. Several of his other books have been shortlisted for this award. He has won the Mountaineering History Prize at Banff Mountain Book Festival for "The Villain" (2005), and the Mountaineering Literature Prize for "The Climbing Essays" (2006), which was also short-listed for the Wales Book of the Year Award. His "Shipton and Tilman: The Great Decade of Himalayan Mountaineering" won the Kekoo Naoroji Prize for Himalayan Literature in 2014. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University.

For many years he has contributed mountaineering obituaries for The Guardian (for example, on Patrick Monkhouse, Lord Hunt, Sir Jack Longland, Sir Edmund Hillary, Brede Arkless,John Streetly, David Cox, Kevin FitzGerald, Robin Hodgkin and others.

He had seven children with seven different partners. His eldest son Will, a talented and well respected climber, died in 2004 aged 24.