MacInnes led them up a steep new route on the north face

MacInnes led them up a steep new route on the north face of Pik Shchurovsky. On the descent Nunn suffered from a combination of asthma and the altitude. These were problems that were to dog him intermittently on the highest mountains in the world.In 1972 he joined Paul Braithwaite, Dennis Hennek and myself to make a new 4,000ft rock climb on the east pillar of Asgard up on the Arctic Circle, in Baffin Island. In 1974 he was back in Russia with Clive Rowlands, Guy Lee, Paul Braithwaite and myself for a new route on Pik Lenin (7,135m) At about 6,500m Nunn had to descend with altitude sickness. In every other way Paul Nunn was the ideal expedition climber. He was not given to homesickness, he was supportive of other members of the team and was himself a craftsman where technical climbing was concerned. Certainly if he had acclimatised better he would have been included in Chris Bonington’s 1975 Everest expedition.

In 1959 he climbed the Cassin route on the Cima Ovest in 41/2 hours and in 1963 made the first British ascent of the Phillip-Flamm route on the Civetta.In 1970 Nunn and Chris Woodhall joined Hamish MacInnes in the Caucasus. Nunn established scores of new routes such as Megaton, on Skye, with Paul Braithwaite and Martin Boysen, Pilastre, again with Boysen, in 1973, on Foinaven; and Emerald Gully, on Beinn Dearg.In his late teens Nunn began to make annual visits to the Alps and/or the Dolomites, climbing many of the classic hard routes. Patey was Nunn’s mentor – as he was for so many other climbers – and imbued him with a love for the north-west Highlands. He also pioneered an enormous number of new routes on Derbyshire limestone with members of the Alpha Mountaineering Club, in Borrowdale, with Paul Ross, and in the north- west Highlands, making the first ascent of the Old Man of Stoer in 1966 with Tom Patey, Brian Robertson and Brian Henderson; and the first ascent of Eastern Stack at Whiten Head with Patey, Brian Fuller, David Goodwin and Clive Rowlands It was here, on the descent, that Patey died. He was brought up by adoptive parents in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He attended the Catholic Xavier College, in Manchester, where he joined the Boy Scouts, who introduced him to hill-walking and rock-climbing in the Peak District at the age of 12. His natural curiosity led him to climb further afield in North Wales, the Lake District and Northern Scotland.

He was involved in every aspect: its literature, guide books, and social life; he was a great yeoman of the climbing world and its servant. He held the leading post in the sport, as chairman of the British Mountaineering Council, at the time of his death.Paul Nunn was born in Abbeyleix, Co Laois, Ireland, in 1943. They were there for the sheer fun of climbing and none more so than Paul Nunn, whose prodigious energy and enthusiasm for the sport have become legendary over the past 35 years.
Nunn was at the centre of British climbing, its affairs and development. This accident was sheer bad luck, for these men were not driven to take undue risks. They would have all been safely back in base camp if that ice had broken a few minutes before or after. On 6 August Paul Nunn and Geoff Tier were descending from the summit of Haromosh II (6,666 metres), in the Karakoram range, when they were overwhelmed by a massive ice-fall collapse and buried.

Three other members of the same expedition had already returned safely from the summit that day – Dave Wilkinson, Brian Davison and Colin Wells They were within earshot of Nunn and Tier. He was in agony, unable to sleep at night, haunted by the text, and often cursing the author, but true to his injunction to go “On”.David Warrilow, actor: born Staffordshire 28 December 1934; died Paris 17 August 1995.. He was an actor of great ambition who started late and taught himself. He knew his own worth and could be very angry when a role he felt he could do better went to another actor; he drilled himself to do what he wanted to do and to meet the challenges he set for himself, which were high, overcoming a temporary alcohol addiction, brought on by depression, and a constitution that was never strong.Warrilow never allowed illness to stop him performing, until the very end. He could make himself an unforgettable stage presence, perhaps most impressively as the human statue that he is seen to become in Catastrophe, where at the end he managed to suggest the inextinguishable flame of human defiance in the face of tyranny by the gleam in his one visible eye as the spotlight focused on it.In spite of debilitating illness, Warrilow insisted on working up to the end.

He collapsed on stage while playing Krapp’s Last Tape last year, but continued to perform in subsequent performances lying on a couch and being carried on stage. In February-March this year he appeared again at the Petit Odeon, the 60-seat experimental auditorium of one of France’s most prestigious theatres, sitting in a chair and reading a few paragraphs from Beckett’s Company, while his taped voice did the rest. He had a Beckettian sense of timing, knowing exactly how long to hold a pause or a pose.He put on a private performance of The Lost Ones for Beckett in Paris before the 80th birthday celebrations in 1986 (in which Beckett typically played no part) which so impressed Beckett that he removed his previous objections and allowed Warrilow to perform it in French in Jean-Louis Barrault’s theatre in the spring of 1986 the same year.Warrilow made one film, La Ferdinanda (1981), and was the narrator’s voice in Sean O’Mordha’s Beckett documentary, Silence to Silence. His voice could adapt itself to different roles – he was excellent in character parts – but often sounded like that of a West End matinee idol (which he never was), a little mannered, especially when doing a ”voice over” on a film or television documentary. Warrilow returned to London in 1990 to perform Krapp’s Last Tape at Riverside Studios In between he acted in both New York and Paris. His French was perfect after much hard work and he performed with large companies, making a particular impression as Marat in The Marat Sade, and went on to stage a number of one-acters including Pinget’s The Hypothesis and adaptations of two of the same author’s novels, Someone and The Inquisitory. These monologues required a prodigious feat of memory and total concentration.Warrilow was of medium height, but like many thin actors with a hypnotic presence, he usually gave the impression of being much taller.