Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Jim Perrin

Born: 1947 (age 79)
Bio: Jim Perrin is an English rock climber and travel writer. He was born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester, England. As a writer, he has made regular contributions on travel, mountaineering, literature and the environment to a number of newspapers and climbing magazines.
Known for:
- The Villain: A Portrait of Don Whillans (2005)
- Shipton and Tilman (2013)
- Menlove (1985)
- Travels with The Flea (2011)
- Snowdon: The Story of a Welsh Mountain (2012)







