Joss Naylor Obituary – Yahoo Sport
Joss Naylor was a giant in the world of mountaineering. In the last third of the 20th century he not only dominated his sport but put it on the map through his charisma.
His greatest feats of endurance, in the 1970s and 80s, were accomplished far from the public eye in the cloudy hills of Cumbria. But the sheer extremity of his feats, and the hardness that made them possible, captured the imagination of mountain lovers everywhere.
Naylor, a Lakeland sheep farmer who lived most of his life in the hamlet of Wasdale Head, has died aged 88. He ran ...