Stewart Fulton

This group was credited with putting up many new routes in the Alps during that time, most significantly the first ascent of the south face of the Aiguille Du Fou (with John Harlin, Tom Frost and Gary Hemming) a smooth wall of sheer rock long deemed to be unclimbable.

Along with climbing he enjoyed trail running, "I used to take off with Stewart, John and a great Scot runner called Jimmy Ferguson.

Once, in Grenoble, while visiting with Gary Hemming, he climbed on sight a 15 meter boulder problem - an overhanging and polished crack - which most of the climbers around there were proud to be able to even top rope.

The Aiguille du Fou was first summited in 1901 but is best known for its south face, a 300-metre sheer rock wall which overlooks the town of Chamonix in the valley below.

John Harlin III, whose father was one of the preeminent American climbers of the sixties who died attempting a direct ascent of the Eiger, describes the ascent of the Aiguille du Fou [fr] (lunatic's needle) in his book "The Eiger Obsession": "[Harlin] had first noticed the face two years earlier when he and Gary looked across the Mer de Glace and were stunned by 'one of the smoothest, most beautiful granite faces we had even seen.

Stewart was leading a long, unprotected layback in the diagonal crack when he slipped, arching down hard on the one good piton he had managed to place.