that human adhesiveness in movement could go no further". He was happier climbing overhangs and loose rock than his contemporaries and predecessors, meaning he could pioneer climbs in new areas. He made more than a hundred first ascents, most of them in Snowdonia and including many of the now-classic rock routes on the crags of the Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia such as Flying Buttress, Spiral Stairs, Crackstone Rib, Nea and Brant. As with many other British climbers of his era he was passionately against the use of pitons. Edwards described that he "grew up exuberant in body but with a nervy, craving mind. It was wanting something more, something tangible. It sought for reality intensely, always as if it were not there ... But you see at once what I do. I climb." References 1: "Menlove: The Life and Writings of John Menlove Edwards, by Jim Perrin. First edition Gollancz 1985, second edition The Ernest Press 1993 British rock climbers British conscientious objectors English LGBT sportspeople 20th-century English poets People educated at Fettes College Alumni of the University of Liverpool English male poets 20th-century English male writers Gay sportsmen LGBT climbers 20th-century LGBT people 1910 births 1958 suicides Suicides by cyanide poisoning