John Rooke Corbett
British rock climber
Died when: 72 years 320 days (874 months)Star Sign: Libra
John Rooke Corbett (27 September 1876 – 13 August 1949), better known as J.Rooke Corbett was one of the founder-members of The Rucksack Club and their Convener of Rambles.
In the 1920s Corbett compiled a list of Scottish hills between 2500 and 3000 feet with a prominence of at least 500 feet.
It was not published until after his death, when his sister passed it to the Scottish Mountaineering Club.It is now well known to Scottish hillwalkers as The Corbetts.
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