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2 unusual facts about John Birkbeck


John Birkbeck

His name is remembered for his involvement in some early explorations of some of the potholes of Ingleborough, especially Alum Pot and Gaping Gill, although the records are sparse.

He was a member of the party which made the first ascent of Monte Rosa in 1855 and, in 1857, a founder member of the Alpine Club, having been a friend of its first president, John Ball, at Cambridge.



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