After soloing the north face of the Col du Plan, he climbed: the Bonatti Pillar, Aiguille du Dru; the Freney Pillar directissima, Mont Blanc; Gervussutti Pillar, Mt Blanc du Tacul; Walker Spur, Grandes Jorrasses; Brenva Spur, Mt Blanc; Eiger north face, Droites north face.
The mountaineer Andy Cave originates from Royston, and was a coal miner until the 1984-5 miners' strike, at which point he dedicated himself to mountaineering.
Andy Warhol | Nick Cave | The Andy Griffith Show | cave | Andy Murray | Andy Roddick | Andy Sheppard | Andy Goldsworthy | Andy Williams | Andy Griffith | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Horace Andy | Andy Sturmer | Andy Reid | Andy Gibb | Andy Devine | Cave Creek, Arizona | Andy Summers | Andy Dick | Andy McCoy | Andy Goodman | Andy | Andy McCluskey | Andy Hertzfeld | Andy Grammer | Andy García | Andy C | Cave Hill | Andy Samberg | Andy Montañez |
Andy Cave (2005 winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature) describes it well in his award winning book Learning to Breathe: "I had the hot aches... As the blood began to creep back into my hands I bowed my head. It felt like small shards of broken glass were being hammered into my fingertips."
He has won the Boardman Tasker prize twice, first for Menlove (1985), his biography of John Menlove Edwards, and again as a joint winner (alongside Andy Cave's Learning to Breathe) for The Villain (2005), a biography of Don Whillans.