the coast of Sutherland. He, Rusty Baillie and Chris Bonington pioneered the route up the Old Man of Hoy which was repeated with others on a live televised BBC outside broadcast on 8–9 July 1967. In 1966 he received a Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, after assisting in an incident where two climbers were killed after a fall. On 25 May 1970 he fell and died while abseiling from The Maiden, a sea stack off Whiten Head on the Sutherland coast. Legacy In 2022 a playground was opened in Chapelton named Patey Park. Bibliography One Man's Mountains, Tom Patey, 1971, . Collected by his great friend Chris Bonington with his Introduction. ISBN No:- 0-86241-664-7 first published by Victor Gollanz Ltd. 1971 Peter Donnelly, 'Patey, Thomas Walton [Tom] (1932–1970)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 References 1932 births 1970 deaths Scottish mountain climbers Mountaineering deaths Sport deaths in Scotland Royal Navy officers People educated at Ellon Academy People educated at Robert Gordon's College Alumni of the University of Aberdeen 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish general practitioners Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct