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A postscript to: Overheard at the funeral by ‘Melangell’ (JP?)

When this title was first posted on the 5th of February, 2011, we had no idea that by then Jim Perrin had charmed at least three young women into becoming involved with him: this was in the five years up to 2010 which followed the death of our sister on the 11th of May, 2005 *.

Whilst he was using one of his aliases (as we believe he did) to plant his comments on The Guardian thread we had not at that time been informed about those relationships. The first, as we were later told, he conducted within only a year of Jac dying…  going to a house (again in Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant) bought with funds mainly provided by his new partner, and as he himself wrote in West: ‘Moving in on the anniversary of Jac’s funeral’…

Jim Perrin’s grief for the loss of our sister, short-lived as evidently it had been, obviously was no longer of consequence (though we were not aware of this) when in 2010 he posted in The Guardian the comment we quoted in ‘Overheard at the funeral by ‘Melangell’ (JP?)’

So: five years after our sister died, Jim Perrin’s intention seems to have been two-fold: posing as ‘Melangell’ to promote by that dialogue with Jac’s sisters his then recently published book, West: (and the useful and continuing saga of his Terminal Lung Cancer) and to vilify us. He sought to support and strengthen his own cause by the use of spurious ‘facts’, and by lying about us he attempted to destroy our credibility and reputation.

It is now quite clear: unknowing as we were and thus writing as we did in the penultimate paragraph of our previous post we gave Jim Perrin far too much credit for what we imagined to be his distress…

* We have now learned that there were at least five young women in that period.

Jac’s sisters.

Jim Curran v Jim Perrin (part 6 of 6)

Yet again Jim Perrin has put a book forward for a prize and has been short-listed; this time for the Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Award, 2013. In the context of this competition it is to Jim Perrin’s undoubted advantage that those with whom he mixes choose to have very short memories…  As we make clear in the following paragraphs it is apparent that he is man who is entirely unscrupulous and one who does not hesitate to use immensely shifty behaviour to gain his objective.

In our latest sequence of postings (Jim Curran v Jim Perrin parts 1 to 5) we have shown, and with no question of doubt whatsoever, that Jim Perrin has in the past — not only once but twice — been proved guilty BY HIS OWN HAND of dishonesty concerning the judging of this most prestigious of literary competitions.

And it is to his eternal discredit that he calumnized a fellow climber, Jim Curran, both in a letter to the judges and committee and, for good measure, with a libellous article in a climbing magazine some years later. Jim Perrin and his publishers at the time were obliged to withdraw from a scheduled court-hearing for libel, to retreat in disarray and to pay a small fortune to the plaintiff.

Surely those actions should have put Jim Perrin well beyond the pale? His actually perfidious nature — as we believe it to be — was, in our opinion, revealed: his on-going lack of integrity is by now well-documented.

In fact, over time, Jim Perrin has succeeded in brushing those matters under the carpet, as would a disreputable house-maid, but surely his actions, his attempted corruption of the judging process, should never be forgotten? Had it not been for Jim Curran’s profoundly illuminating autobiography we fear they would have been.

  • To hurt the reputations of other climbers and authors; to plant his lies like poisonous seeds in his attempts to control events — these are not the actions of a worthy man: nor of a man worthy of acclaim. His behaviour was so deceitful and so utterly dishonest — and yet fortuitously the evidence of this was discovered, and uncovered, and shown: in the first instance to the judging panel and, in the second, to the lawyers — one cannot help but wonder what other pressure he might over the years have brought to bear…

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So: Despite Jim Perrin’s machinations they led to nothing. He failed to ‘win’ after all although by all accounts he confidently expected to do so; instead, Harriet Tuckey was awarded the prize with the outstanding biography of her father, Griffith Pugh,* and although Jim Curran had not entered a book this year (this author whom Jim Perrin has so frequently traduced and whose career he has shamelessly attempted to sabotage), he was however acknowledged and singularly honoured by that estimable establishment:

‘It was decided by this year’s judges and the committee of the Boardman Tasker  Mountain Literature Award that they wished to pay tribute to Jim Curran.

They wrote: ‘A special award has been given to Jim Curran for his outstanding and consistent contribution to mountain literature.‘ This is an accolade of which Jim Curran can rightly be proud — worth more, among his peers, than anything which has been achieved by Jim Perrin, the man who has for years behaved so vilely towards him and ruthlessly hounded him…

Jac’s sisters.

* Harriet Tuckey’s book ‘Everest: The First Ascent’ was very well received and out of sixty five reviews on Amazon, 4.6 out of 5 stars, only one reviewer absolutely slated it — and one who had not had his own book recognised… This review was posted on 12/11/2013 by someone (unsurprisingly!) calling themselves ‘Llywarch’, and so disgusted were several readers by the blatantly censorious tone that they commented upon it. Interestingly the writer of that review (Llywarch’) then changed his name to one ‘Tim Bartley’ — (Such a timely coincidence that this was after Jac’s sisters had been posting their many accusations that ‘Llywarch’ was being used as an alias by Jim Perrin!) When the change of name to ‘Tim Bartley’ was put into place, all sixteen of his ‘Llywarch’ reviews, going back to April, 2005, were also changed. They may still be read online. Irrefutably Jim Perrin WAS ‘Llywarch’; irrefutably Jim Perrin is NOW ‘Tim Bartley’.

Later note:  Jac’s sisters were so sorry to learn that since this post, 25/10/2013,  Jim Curran died on the 05/04/2016.

We are glad that with his full cooperation we were able to post this sequence, not only to show to those who might have been unaware how truly wicked Jim Perrin is, but more importantly, to reveal to others who will read Jim’s autobiography how innate was his integrity and honesty; and what a many-talented human being he was.

Jim Curran v Jim Perrin (part 5 of 6)

Jim Curran has spoken with jacssisters at length on the subject of his recollections of Jim Perrin over the years, and told us he has been following our posts regarding him with great interest. Now he has kindly given us permission to use, however we wish, the information in his own absorbing autobiography Here, There and Everywhere, and we are particularly grateful to him for this freedom.

Not only has it enabled us to make public yet another aspect of what in our opinion is Jim PERRIN’S perfidious nature but also, through this sequence of posts, to give greater exposure to a major example of his modus operandi — extra ‘coverage’ of his now notorious scheming — and ‘to set the record straight’:  in this case, for Jim Curran’s sake.

Jac’s sisters.

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The following is taken from Chapter 28 of Jim Curran’s autobiography:

 

“During the 1990s I was involved in a protracted saga of litigation that provoked an astonishing amount of vitriol and ill-feeling throughout the British climbing world. During, and ever since that time, I have remained silent and only now, 20 years later, am I prepared to comment on the issues involved, and I do so now with some trepidation. However, as my side of the story has never been made public, I think it is now time to do so. Before I start, I must make it quite clear that the magazine with which I took issue, ‘Climber and Hillwalker’, has since been sold, is now called simply ‘Climber’ and is now under new management and control, with whom, obviously, I have absolutely no quarrel. Continue reading →