Jimmy Jewell (climber)

A photograph taken by Paul Williams shortly before Jewell's death featured Jewell doing an early-morning solo ascent of The Axe (E4 6a) at Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in Snowdon. The photograph was reproduced as a poster and featured on the cover of the 1989 Clogwyn Du'r Arddu Guidebook.

Philip "Jimmy" Jewell (1953 – 31 October 1987) was a British rock climber and free soloist who was active during the 1970s and 1980s.

Jewell died on 31 October 1987 while returning to his climbing club hut via a climb known as Poor Man's Peuterey (Severe) at Tremadog, North Wales. Soloing the route in sneakers, he slipped and fell to his death. He is buried at Bangor New Cemetery in North Wales.

Jewell featured in Total Control, a video of classic 1980s UK climbing made by Alun Hughes, a Welsh film-maker. Hughes filmed him climbing Left Wall (E2 5C) at Dinas Cromlech, and for the purposes of the film, Jewell free soloed the same route six times, using exactly the same moves and chalking in the same places, amounting to 800 ft of climbing.

Jewell was a member of the Birmingham Cave and Crag Club. On first approaching the club he was taken to Llanberis by club members Graham Wales and Mick Moss. On that trip, he was taken up Direct at Dinas Mot. Eighteen months later he led Cenotaph Corner at Dinas Cromlech. On 16 April 1978 he made the first ascent of The Flytrap at Gogarth, along with Joe Brown and D. Cuthbertson.