They pioneered many routes in the Peak District including Stanage Edge and The Roaches and he later moved to mountains including new routes at Glen Coe, Ben Nevis, the Inaccessible Pinnacle and the 3rd ascent of the central buttress of Scafell in 1923.
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.