Harold Drasdo obituary

Climber, writer and outdoor instructor who as part of the Bradford Lads put up new routes in the heartlands of British climbingThe rock climber Harold Drasdo, who has died aged 85, tackled the heartlands of British mountaineering with the leading climbers of the postwar era – and later became an incisive writer and educationist, whose books unearthed the sport’s deeper philosophical roots.In his highly regarded memoirs, The Ordinary Route (1997), Drasdo drew out the threads that form