He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published for children as well as adults. His first novel, Traitor's Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. Īn aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out to make his living as an author.

He also climbed in the Pyrenees and Alps. As reported in his obituary by the daily post, in the early 1950s Showell Styles led several expeditions in the Himalayas and Arctic. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. His father Alfred Thomas Styles was also born in Four Oaks, in 1882. Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in nearby Sutton Coldfield. JSTOR ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įrank Showell Styles (14 March 1908 – 19 February 2005) was an English writer and mountaineer.

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The Moated Mountain by Showell Styles