Alan James
Alan was born and bred in Sheffield. He did his first climb on the local gritstone in 1971 following in his father's footsteps, taking it up as a full-time passion through the 1980s. In 1992 he wrote his first guidebook and hasn't looked back since with his company - Rockfax - now the leading producer of rock climbing guidebooks in the country. Not content with guidebooks he also set up a small web site back in the 1990s called UKClimbing.com which has gone on to become the world's busiest and most popular rock climbing web site.
UKClimbing - http://www.ukclimbing.com
UKHillwalking - http://www.ukhillwalking.com
Rockfax - http://www.rockfax.com
