Kenneth John Wilson (7 February 1941 – 11 June 2016) was a British writer, publisher and editor of books and magazines about climbing and mountaineering.
Based on his experience from the early 1950s with a holiday in the Lake District and with climbing and walking with the scouts, in 1968 he took up a post to run a Youth Hostels Association magazine called Mountain Craft.
[1] In 1960 with his long-time friend Dave Cook he went on a Mountaineering Association course in the Alps climbing 19 peaks near Arolla.
The magazine had high journalistic standards, exemplified by its coverage of the Cairngorm Plateau disaster in 1971.
[5] His 1974 compendium Mountain Craft was aimed firmly at practitioners of the sport and attracted writers such as Chris Bonington, Royal Robbins, Jim Perrin, Ed Drummond and Al Alvarez.