John Crabbe Cunningham

Who is John Crabbe Cunningham?

John Crabbe Cunningham was a Scottish climber. Born in Glasgow, he climbed extensively in the Scottish mountains, where he pioneered new techniques of ice climbing.

For several years, he worked for the British Antarctic Survey of the British Antarctic Territory. On 23 November 1964, he became the first to climb Antarctica's Mount Jackson. In 1960–61, he was a member of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, serving as Station Commander at Stonington Island in 1962–63. He was a member of the British Antarctic Survey, and was Station Commander of Adelaide Island in 1964–65. He was also a member of the South Georgia Survey of 1955–56. He died after a climbing accident off "sea-cliffs" of mountains of Holyhead on 31 January 1980, when was carried away by sea waves to his death as he did not know how to swim.