Editing Johnny Dawes (section)

==Legacy==
Dawes is widely considered a legend of British rock climbing,<ref name=SM>{{cite magazine | magazine=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] | first=Samantha | last=Larson | date=16 April 2015 | accessdate=8 January 2022 | title="Look Ma, No Hands!" A Rock Climber Scales Cliffs Without Using His Hands | url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/look-ma-no-hands-rock-climber-scales-cliffs-without-using-them-180955017/}}</ref><ref name=GUB/> and one of the most influential figures in British rock climbing history.<ref name=PMI>{{cite web | website=PlanetMountain | url=https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/interviews/johnny-dawes-the-rock-climbing-interview.html | date=23 December 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2022 | title=Johnny Dawes - the rock climbing interview}}</ref><ref name=GUAR/>  Over a career spanning the early-1980s to the early-1990s, he pushed the technical level of traditional climbing with routes that were unprecedented both in terms of difficulty, and the style in which they were climbed.<ref name=PMI/><ref name=SAM>{{cite magazine | magazine=[[Climbing (magazine)|Climbing]] | url=https://www.climbing.com/news/the-full-johnny-dawes-interview/ | first=Matt | last=Samet | date=27 September 2007 | accessdate=10 January 2022 | title=The Full Johnny Dawes Interview}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[The Guardian]]'' called Dawes a "defining figure" and wrote that: "His climbs were rated among the very hardest in the world, test pieces of both balance and nerve, some with a reputation for terrible danger".<ref name=GUAR5>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/dec/21/johnny-dawes-interview-rock-climbing | first=Peter | last=Beaumont | date=3 January 2012 | accessdate=9 January 2022 | title=Johnny Dawes: 'It's about doing something that's fun… and impossible'}}</ref> Some of his routes are still so intimidating that they are rarely repeated, and several feature in climbing films focused on Dawes (e.g. '' 80s Birth of Extreme'') and his routes (e.g. ''[[Hard Grit]]'', ''Quarrymen'').<ref name=PMI/>