Tag Archives: The Guardian

‘Snowdon’ author Jim Perrin is a disconcerted man

It has been said (by someone who is a friend Jim Perrin and knows him well) that we are with our posts ‘getting under his skin’ — and that ‘he is a disconcerted man’.

Asked whether we should not be concerned that by writing them we might be drawing more attention to his earlier book West, we have thought of it and given it careful consideration: however, we realise that anyone who reads the book we so deplore, and the first chapter in The Climbing Essays (the first book in which he wrote his lies about ‘Jacquetta’) is likely to become aware of jacssisters.org. We have been told this by many who have actually found our site after reading his books…

Therefore more people will be able to read for themselves the story of our sister’s short relationship with Jim Perrin — the man she grew to fear, and of the extra issues that with the help of others have come to light and which we have raised since our first postings. Those who might research him, and who discover jacssisters — both now or in the future — will learn far more about him than ever he would wish or could imagine. Continue reading →

A Hidden Side to Jim Perrin

It is one of the finer traits of human-kind to trust and to place confidence in those whom we love or admire and mentors for example, ideally, should have the utmost integrity, their position of ‘power’ never exploited or abused. Cynicism is not naturally a predominant human characteristic and those of a trusting nature may readily, yet unwittingly, fall under the flattering ‘charming’ spell of a subtle and experienced practitioner; one whose flaws of character could lead to a betrayal of their trust.

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Jim Perrin, we know, has led people to trust him and to believe in him. But we wonder whether the fact that his writing is in some quarters well-regarded (although, by contrast, the phrase: ‘he’s a purple-prose merchant of a high order’ has been used… ) should override the many grave failings in the character of the man? — character failings which for years (and decades) have been by some only too well known but which are at last now coming to more public attention. Continue reading →

Jac’s sisters believe that Jim Perrin also uses the alias ‘Llywarch’

The Guardian, for whom Jim Perrin regularly writes (with, it could be said, his sinecure the ‘Country Diary’), has been accepting the dubious postings of ‘Melangell’ (JP?) for two years since the exchange between jacssisters and Jim Perrin referred to in earlier posts; and although we have contacted several within that organization to record our belief that he is deceiving them, ref. our post ‘Is Jim Perrin ‘Melangell?’, still they seem unaware.

Most recently our suspicions have fallen upon Arthur Dooley, ‘John, N.Wales’, who reviewed The Old Ways on Amazon, 13/06/2012. To suggest that he is Jim Perrin would, we realize, be ‘Perrinoia’ but we do think that his name might have been ‘borrowed’ — a stratagem we believe Jim Perrin has used before.

One has only to read this particular Dooley review, and his comments (one of which follows a review by ‘Sentinal’, 28/04/2012,) to notice the similarities between ‘his’ style — although not in all the previous reviews — and those of ‘Llywarch’ and ‘Mark’; and the comment which followed the posting by Caroline Hardaker (one of Jac’s sisters) of 16/07/2012, was edited five times — we have kept print-outs… Continue reading →