page_title: Eric Jones (climber)
section_title: Exploits
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Jones (climber) / Exploits
caption_attribution_description: English: Leo Dickinson (left) and Eric Jones (right), both climbers and adventurers, lecturing at Buxton Adventure Festival in 2019 on their 1970s and 80s exploits in Patagonia and elsewhere.
context_page_description: Eric Jones is a Welsh solo climber, skydiver and BASE jumper.
  He is best known for the first British solo ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 1981, and for his climbs on the Matterhorn and South Col on Mount Everest. In 1986, he became the first person to BASE jump from the Eiger.
context_section_description: In 1969, Jones ascended the Bonatti Pillar on the Dru solo, and in 1971, he was the first person to climb the Central Pillar of Brouillard on the south ridge of Mont Blanc.  
  Many of his exploits, such as the Eiger ascent  and the Matterhorn ascent, have been filmed by award winning cameraman Leo Dickinson.  Jones and Dickinson, with two other climbers, made the first complete film of the Eiger climb in 1970, with Jones' first British solo ascent following in 1981, resulting in the acclaimed film Eiger Solo.
  Dickinson, (who in 1991 became the first to fly in a balloon over Everest, taking what has been described as "The best picture on Earth", and wrote a book called Filming the Impossible) also worked with Jones when he filmed Ice Climbing with Eric Jones in Switzerland.
caption: Leo Dickinson (left) and Eric Jones (right), lecturing in 2019 on their shared adventures.
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