Kev Reynolds

Kev Reynolds (7 December 1943 – 10 December 2021) was an English outdoor writer, known for his guidebooks for climbing and walking in the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Himalayas and southern England.

Personal life Reynolds was born on 7 December 1943 at Ingatestone in Essex. He worked in local government until 1967, when he married Min and they moved to St. Moritz, where they worked in a hostel. They returned to England and became wardens of Crockham Hill YHA youth hostel. They later lived in Edenbridge in Kent. He was survived by his wife Min, two children and two grandchildren. As well as numerous mountain guides he wrote guides to the North Downs Way, South Downs Way and Cotswold Way. In 2013 he published A Walk in the Clouds, a collection of 75 autobiographical stories, and in 2019 he edited Fifty Years of Adventure, a celebration of 50 years of his main publisher the Cicerone Press.

Recognition Reynolds was one of the first honorary members of the British Association of European Mountain Leaders, later the British Association of International Mountain Leaders

Selected publications

First edition: 1978, (Celebrating fifty years of the Cicerone Press)

(75 autobiographical stories)