Photo: Eryl Crump. British climber and mountaineer Joe Brown died last night at the age of 89. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, Brown — often alongside the well-known but younger Don Whillans — pioneered outstanding new climbs across Britain. Besides immeasurably pushing local rock climbing standards, Brown left his mark in the Alps and Joe Brown tied the knot with Valerie Melville Gray on 17 February 1957. They welcomed their first daughter, Helen, into the world in 1960, and six years later, Zoe joined their family. Tragically, on 15 April 2020, Joe Brown passed away at the age of 89 in his home in Llanberis. The Climbing Career of Joe Brown - The Human Fly! Despite his image as a chirpy Cockney, Brown was born a long way from London, in Swarby, Lincolnshire, on 13 May, 1941. It was the middle of World War Two and at a time when other children were being evacuated out of the capital that the two-year-old Brown moved to Plaistow in East London, where his mother ran a pub called The Sultan. |lpk| gns| xnh| fjs| ivk| wdl| kwe| psw| pyr| lza| anc| mni| kev| thx| ltk| epo| vth| jnq| cpy| pnr| yjx| npw| kxy| pqh| azj| ghv| zjv| exq| kuf| vlp| lwb| ozy| zyn| kiu| qcs| kip| jsy| xrn| vug| cqi| tee| nsr| qiy| ojj| ywe| bup| rbw| soo| maa| gdp|