Perrin, Jim: - Jim Perrin is a renowned rock climber and author. As well as pioneering new routes on the Derbyshire gritstone outcrops, North Wales and Pembrokeshire's sea cliffs, he also has a number of first ascents and solo climbs to his name. He has published sixteen books, of which Menlove, his biography of John Menlove Edwards, and The Villain, a biography of Don Whillans co-written with Andy Cave, won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. The latter title also won Mountaineering History Prize at Banff Mountain Book Festival, and the Mountaineering Literature Prize for his book The Climbing Essays. His writing has established his status as one of Britain's most prominent mountain literature authors.