Joe Brown

Biography

Joseph Brown CBE (26 September 1930 – 15 April 2020) was an English mountaineer who was regarded as an outstanding pioneer of rock climbing during the 1950s and early 1960s. Together with his early climbing partner, Don Whillans, he was one of a new breed of British post-war climbers who came from working class backgrounds in contrast to the upper and middle class professionals who had dominated the sport up to the Second World War. He became the first person to climb the third-highest mountain in the world when he was on the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. Some of his climbs were televised and he assisted with mountaineering scenes in several films.

Movies with Joe Brown

• Best Forgotten Art 1996
• Trango 1978
• Don Whillans' Last Climb 1985
• Joe: A Profile of a Mountaineer 1968
• Mountains for the Masses 1973
• The Ascent of Kangchenjunga 1955
• Hazard 1959
• Don Whillans - Myth and Legend 2006
• 4 Men, 1 Face 1963
• How They Climbed the Old Man of Hoy 1967
• The Old Man of Hoy 1967
• The Old Man of Hoy 1992
• The Anglesey Climb 1970
• The Old Man of Stoer 1979
• Climb of Red Wall 1966