Born in India, Smith was sent home to Scotland aged eight, attending Morrison's Academy in Crieff then boarding at George Watson's College.
Smith left behind a string of more than 40 new summer and winter routes, many made at the highest level for the period and still considered as great classics of Scottish Mountaineering.
His partnership with Dougal Haston is probably the most well known, resulting in routes such as Gob on Carnmore in Wester Ross in April 1960 and Turnspit on Aonach Dubh in 1961.
Indeed, legend has that whilst discussing this buttress with the older and fiercely short-tempered Manchester climber Don Whillans, Smith was to remark that while Whillans had forged the groundbreaking routes of Centurion and Sassenach on Carn Dearg, Smith and Haston had simply climbed the difficult bit in between.
Smith and Marshall were to interrupt their week with a single rest day involving descent to Fort William, a pub crawl and temporary arrest by the local constabulary over an incident with some dominoes.