Jo Moran

[1] He was the first person to climb the cliffs of the Noup of Noss in Shetland, Scotland, the first to photograph the Leach's storm petrel at the nest, and was also an early influence on British mountaineer and climber Mick Burke.

[17][18] In the late 1950s, a few years after the evacuation of the islands in 1953, he visited Great Blasket (Na Blascaodaí) and Inishvickillane (Inis Mhic Aoibhleáin) off County Kerry in Ireland, to establish whether there was a breeding colony of Leach's petrels in this archipelago.

[24][25] Jo won the title of Wigan Mountaineering Association's 'Mountain Man of the Year' for 1967, winning an 18-hr three-part walk-off starting at midnight at Wastwater Lake, up the Pillar massif via the summits of Red Pike and Steeple, eventually arriving at Seatoller at dawn.

The second part saw Moran walk over Stonethwaite and Greenup Edge to Grasmere, and the third took in Heron Pike, Erne Crag, High Rigg Man, Fairfield and the Helvellyn range.

In its first year, the Trust made awards to five applicants, supporting projects including a sailing-climbing expedition on the Norwegian coast, and a mineral survey of old mine workings in mid-Wales.