Paul Braithwaite
Paul ("Tut") Braithwaite (born 2 June 1946) is a British rock climber, mountaineer, and company director. With Nick Estcourt he climbed Mount Everest's almost vertical Rock Band, a key to the success of the 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition. He was president of the Alpine Club from 2007 to 2010. Born in Oldham in 1946, Paul Braithwaite, always known to climbers as "Tut", took to rock climbing at the age of fourteen on rock outcrops in the Pennines. He worked as a painter and decorator, saving up to go on climbing expeditions in the Alps. By eighteen he had climbed the Eiger and the Matterhorn. He went on to put up many new routes in Britain including ''Scansor'' on Stob Coire nan Lochan (a subsidiary peak of Bidean nam Bian) and ''The Cumbrian'' on the Esk Buttress of Scafell Pike. He made the first ascent of ''East Pillar'' on Mount Asgard on Baffin Island in 1972; of Pik Lenin in the Pamirs by its south-east spur route in 1974; and of Point Innominata (a ...
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Aguja Rafael Juarez
Aguja (Spanish for needle) may refer to: * Aguja (Marvel Comics), character in Marvel Comics * Aguja (meat), pork shoulder blade cut *Aguja Formation The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, United States and Chihuahua and Coahuila in Mexico, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered f ..., geological formation in Texas and Mexico * Aguja Saint Exupery, mountain spear in Patagonia, Argentina * Aguja skate (''Bathyraja aguja''), species of fish {{dab ...
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