William Cecil Slingsby

William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer born in Bell Busk, near Gargrave, Yorkshire.

Together with Norway's early skilled mountain climber Kristian Bing (1862–1935), he is considered to have been a pioneer explorer of Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in continental Europe.

He was an honorary member of Norsk Tindeklub and of the Norwegian Trekking Association.

[6] He had five children; the youngest, Eleanor Winthrop Young, was herself a climber and a co-founder of the Pinnacle Club, a women's climbing association.

[7] Cecil died on 23 August 1929 in a nursing home at Hurstpierpoint, in East Sussex.