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I created the wikipedia article on my father, George H. Lowe III. In the interest of potential conflicts of interest, I am disclosing this. I also did not state anything that was not a verified fact from an outside reviewed source.

Chris Jones (born 1939? ) is a British-American rock climber, photographer, author, and alpinist. He is known for establishing difficult and influential, alpine-style climbs during 1965-1980 in the Andes and Canadian Rockies. He is the author of Climbing in North America, one of the earliest documentations of the history of climbing in North America from the 1800s to the 1970s. .

Jones was an active participant in what many consider to be the Golden Age of climbing in the United States including living at Camp 4 in Yosemite during the summer of 1967. Jones was part of the third ascent of Fitz Roy with Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, and Lito Tejada-Flores in 1968 described in the book, Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968: Reflections on the Lost Photos of the Third Ascent. This climb was also documented in the film, Mountain of Storms by Lito Tejada-Flores.

Early life
Jones became interested in climbing when he attended Marlborough College. One of his teachers, Edwin Kempson, was an alumnni of a 1930's Everest expedition had created a Mountaineering Club at the school. Members of this club initiated their first climbing trip in 1957 to North Wales.

Jones recollected "For the 1957 summer vacation, our ringleader, Peter Bell, proposed an actual climbing trip to North Wales. He was quite explicit on what we should bring, and where we should obtain it. One steel carabiner and a hawser-laid nylon sling. And a waist loop of small-diameter hemp cord that one wrapped several times around the waist; the thinking was that hemp was better than nylon, as in the event of a fall nylon could be burnt thru by the running rope."

Notable climbs

 * 1965 Bonatti Pillar - partner of first American ascent with George Lowe (American alpinist) of the Bonatti Pillar on the Aiguille du Dru, Mont Blanc massif, France.
 * 1967 Serenity Crack, Yosemite, USA (5.10d) - first free ascent with Tom Higgins
 * 1967 North Face, Mount Assiniboine, Canadian Rockies - first ascent with Yvon Chouinard and Joe Faint
 * 1967 North Face, East Summit, Mount Edith Cavell, Canadian Rockies - first ascent with Yvon Chouinard and Joe Faint
 * 1968 Northeast Face of Yerupaja, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru - first ascent July 27-31, 1968 with Paul Dix, Roger Hart, and Dean Caldwell


 * 1968 Southwest Ridge aka California Route, Cerro Fitzroy, Patagonia First ascent of route with Doug Tompkins, Lito Tejada-Flores, Yvon Chouinard and Dick Dorworth, 3rd ascent of peak.


 * 1970 North Face, Mount Columbia (Canada), Canadian Rockies - first ascent with Gray Thompson
 * 1971 North Face, Mount Kitchener, Canadian Rockies - new route with Jeff Lowe and Graham Thompson.
 * 1973 South Face, Devils Thumb (2767m) - First Ascent, Coast Mountains, Alaska with George Lowe (American alpinist) and Lito Tejada-Flores.
 * 1974 North Face (VI 5.10 A4), North Twin Peak (3631m) - First Ascent, Canadian Rockies, with George Lowe widely regarded as some of the best alpinism of the era.
 * 1974 Deltaform Ice Couloir, Deltaform Mountain, Canadian Rockies
 * 1980 The Ramparts Turret Mountain, Canadian Rockies with Brock Wagstaff