Richard Woodhead (FS 60-64) writes in connection with Mike Jamison’s (F 61-65) death:

“I have just read the OSBs Notes for this month and was very sad to read from Neil Dumbleton that my old pal Mike Jamison had died. I gather from what Neil has written that he died early in 2024.

I was very good chums with Mike and indeed we shared a tent together on that first Atlas trip. I remember well an awful night when the two of us, along with some others, had to spend the night curled up under an overhang on the mountain side.

Darkness had fallen and we had been unable to reach the camp that had been set up for us all and Greg Dyke felt it was safer for us to stop climbing and wait for daylight. It was a long, very cold and uncomfortable night. A more pleasant memory on the same expedition was the two of us curled up in our sleeping bags melting the red rind of Edam cheese in our tent candles and watching the red glow flickering around our chilly high altitude 'home'! Happy memories.

I have so many memories of that trip down to the Atlas mountains; memories hardwired into the grey matter even after all these years. As I said they are 'happy memories' and certainly I got a lot of life's lessons out of the whole experience.”

 

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