The cliff has attracted leading climbers of many eras, from the Abrahams through Kirkus, Harding, Brown, Whillans, Crew, Edwards, Ward-Drummond, Redhead and finally Dawes.
Jim Perrin, Menlove, 1985, Gollancz (reprinted by The Ernest Press)
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John Menlove Edwards learnt to climb at Helsby Crag in Cheshire and at age 21 made the first free ascent of Scafell's Central Buttress.
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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 a joint winner (alongside Andy Cave's Learning to Breathe) for The Villain (2005), a biography of Don Whillans.