Alan Blackshaw

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Alan Blackshaw OBE ( 7. April 1933 in Liverpool - 4. August 2011 ) was a British mountain climbers , skiers and officials, the 2001-2004 president of the Alpine Club and from 1997 to 2003, President of the British Ski Club (Ski Club of Great Britain) was.

Early life

Blackshaw was born in Liverpool in 1933 and studied modern history at Merchant Taylors School from 1944 to 1951 and at Wadham College , Oxford (as an Open Scholar) from 1951 to 1954 .

Mountaineers and skiers

In the 1950s he went mountaineering in the Alps and climbed the northeast face of Piz Badile , the north face of Aiguille de Triolet and the south face of Pointe Gugliermina. Expeditions outside of Europe include the Caucasus , Greenland and Garhwal ( Himalayas ).

In 1972 he crossed the Alps from Kaprun to Gap , and between 1973 and 1978 also Scandinavia on skis from Lakselv to Adneram.

In 1965 he published the manual Mountaineering - From Hill Walking to Alpine Climbing .

• 1973–1976: President, British Mountaineering Council (patron since 1978)
• 1985–1997: Chairman of the Plas y Brenin Committee, Sports Council National Mountain Center, North Wales
• 1985–1988: Chairman, British Ski Federation
• 1991–1994: Chairman, Scottish National Ski Council (and President, 1994–2000)
• 1997–2003: President, Ski Club of Great Britain
• 2001–2004: President, Alpine Club
• 2004–2005: President , Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA)

Career overview

• 1954–1956: 42 Royal Marines Command, Cliff Assault Wing (officer trainer)
• 1956–1974: Royal Marines Reserve (mountain war instructor)
• 1956–1979: Public service
• 1965–1967: First Secretary, Diplomatic Service, with British delegation to OECD , Paris
• 1967–1970: First private secretary to three ministers of power
• 1971–1972: Head of the Iron and Steel Department
• 1972–1974: Member of the Charterhouse Bank in the City of London
• 1974–1978: Undersecretary of State and later General Manager, Offshore Supplies Office, Member of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, Offshore Power Engineering and Marine and Marine Engineering Requirements Committee
• 1978–1979: Undersecretary of State, Coal Department, London
• 1979–2007: Management consultant at Strategy International Limited and Oakwood Environmental Limited
• 1990–1995: Board member, Scottish Sports Council
• 1991–1997: Board Member, Scottish Natural Heritage
• 1998 -0000: Member of the Cairngorms Partnership Board