Reading
- "The Splendid Enterprise - The First Fifty Years of Plas y Brenin The National Mountain Centre (UK)", by Lyndsey King, Published 2006, ISBN 978-0-9554675-0-9
- "The First Fifty Years of the British Mountaineering Council", Published 1997, ISBN 0-903908-07-7. The opening gambit in the Introduction reads: 'It the BMC exists to further the interests of mountaineering as a whole, and it will succeed in this only in as far as it receives the full support of each and every mountaineer...It should be needless to add that there will be no attempt to introduce anything so foolish as a qualification scheme for mountain leaders '.' G.A.Dummett, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1946.
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