"[1] Clough was born on 13 March 1937[2] in the Yorkshire town of Baildon, near Bradford, and learned to climb on the gritstone edges near his home.
[1] He supported himself after leaving National Service in various jobs, including running a small climbing school from the cottage he and his wife Nikki Clough owned at Glen Coe.
His wife Nikki Clough, who later died of cancer, was also a mountaineer and climbed the north face of the Matterhorn with her husband.
An earlier memorial at the site is an inscription above his grave there, reading "Ian Clough, killed May 30, 1970", cut into rock with an accompanying message in a local language.
The burial site was suggested by Sherpas on the expedition and lies below a rock wall where he gave them climbing lessons.