Talk:Joe Brown (climber)

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The description of the Old Man of Hoy is currently a bit garbled I think. Firstly, I believe that what the writer had in mind was the TV programme, not the FA.

Secondly Hamish MacInnes' guidebook credits Baillie, Patey and Bonnington with the FA of the East Face route in 1966 (by some accounts this was on TV), Brown & MacNaught-Davis with the FA of the South Face route in 1967, and Crew and Haston with the FA of the SE Arete also in 1967.

My dim recollection was that the TV referred to here, with Brown, was probably in 1967, of Brown and MacNaught-Davis _making_ their FA (and possibly of Crew and Haston making their FA, and also of Patey & Bonnington _repeating_ their 1966 FA). Bob aka Linuxlad 10:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * It was the right Ian McNaught-Davis that you linked too (Gowron 18:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC))

"An early climbing partner was Don Whillans, a fellow Mancunian builder's assistant (Brown has often incorrectly been described as a 'climbing plumber')" - except Whillans was a plumber, so describe him as a "fellow builder's assistant" is incorrect 195.149.63.142 11:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

"Builder's assistant" never heard of one of those before - do they mean "labourer"? Let's not mince word ;) He should be knighted, he is a national hero. A living legend.

Also, the page is missing the normal summary info. box to the right side. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.5.155 (talk) 15:01, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I've added one and filled in what info I could findSandrinaHatman (talk) 21:44, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Re-ordering
I've reordered this biog as it had been added to without much structure. I've added sub-sections and removed repetition. It could do with someone checking the climbing data is now correct. There are no names for his parents - which could do with adding. It will need checking for flow and typos. I've added an info box plus what info I could, as well as references to his obituaries. I've also added some quotes from published works to give a sense of how respected he was by fellow climbers. SandrinaHatman (talk) 21:44, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Nationality
Joe Brown is listed on Wikipedia's front page today alongside Joe Brown. One is listed as British and one is listed as English,yet the text makes clear both were born in England. I have attempted to resolve that. Robata (talk) 10:46, 23 January 2021 (UTC)