Year of publication 1960 - Fell and Rock Climbing Club

IN MEMORIAM 73years all school holidays were spent in the Lakes and ScottishHighlands; later he extended his travels to Corsica, the Alps,Spain and South Africa.Porter did a great work for mountaineering by trainingscores of schoolboys, of whom the writer was one, to walk andclimb safely in all conditions and to treat mountains with therespect they deserve.J. C. APPLEYARD.ARTHUR ACKERLEY, 1919-1960Arthur Ackerley died at his dairy farm in Shropshire on the7th May, 1960, after a long illness bravely borne. Educatedat Birkenhead School, he joined the Club in 1919 when only16 years of age. In 1927 he became a partner with his brother,Graham, in the family business of Benjamin Ackerley andSons Ltd., Steamship Agents, and remained an active memberof the firm and its associated companies until his death. In1932, he married Miss K. A. Bloxridge, who survives him.His first climb was Great Gully, Pavey Ark, with the lateDr. A. W. Wakefield in 1917, from which time his enthusiasmfor the Lakeland crags knew no bounds and he spent everyavailable holiday at his family's climbing hut at the foot ofHell Ghyll, near Stool End Farm, in Langdale. I and manyothers have the happiest memories of being the guests of theAckerleys at their hut, which was well equipped with hammocksand cooking gear and at which there was always anapparently inexhaustible store of cases of luscious tinnedfruits.Exceptionally tall, Arthur was an extremely fast goer on thehills and he regarded the hut in Langdale as a convenient basefrom which to climb on all the main crags, including PillarRock. His diaries record a walk from Keswick Station to theButtermere Hotel in under two hours and the round ofWasdale from Scafell to Red Pike. It was his practice to givemost others a good half-hour's start in the morning and forthe party to arrive at the crags at the same time, each goingat their normal pace.He was a resolute and most capable leader on rock andGraham and I had good reason to be thankful for his skill andcourage when, caught on Gimmer by a sudden wind of fullgale force, he came as last man down Oliverson's Variation,