Mountaineering Scientist Plunges to Death, Tuesday
FRIDAY, 29 JUNE 2007
Eighty-two years old Professor Malcolm Slesser of Scotland died after plunging from a clifftop in the Highlands, Tuesday. He is one of Scotland's most distinguished scientists and mountaineers.
Professor Malcolm was killed while walking last Tuesday evening on the Ardnish Peninsula at Loch Ailort. He was walking with a woman companion when the accident happened. According to John Fowler of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, Slesser had a remarkable mountaineering career and was active right to the end. He took part in the gruelling expedition to the Arctic in 1950's and wrote widely on his academic discipline and on mountaineering.
Professor Slesser was a graduate of Edinburgh University and was a regular contributor to the letters page of The Scotsman. Red Peak was his best known book which tackles the 1962 international expedition to the Pamir mountains in Central Asia.
Read more about this news at news.scotsman.com.
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