Robin Campbell, Barry Blanchard & Martin Wragg
I was very sorry to receive the news from Dennis Gray that Robin Campbell had died. Robin was a Boardman Tasker Award Judge in 2014 and was Chair of Judges in 2015. Robin was a contemporary of Dougal Haston and Robin Smith in Edinburgh and was a major figure in Scottish Mountaineering since the early 1960s.
In 2015 when the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature was presented to Barry Blanchard for his book “The Calling”, Robin gave a wonderfully humorous speech that had the audience at Kendal Mountain Festival in fits of laughter which resulted in loud applause afterwards.
Robin was a strong supporter of the BT Trust over many years and gave me help over matters on a number of occasions.
Steve Dean
Honorary Secretary The Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust