Editing Johnny Dawes (section)

==Personal life==
Dawes was born in 1964 in [[Birmingham, West Midlands|Birmingham]],<ref>{{cite web | website=[[Media Wales]] | url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/how-real-life-spiderman-johnny-dawes-2037245 | title=How the real-life Spiderman Johnny Dawes scaled Wales' toughest cliff face | date=8 January 2012 | first=James | last=McCarthy | accessdate=8 January 2022}}</ref> into a wealthy family, whose parents were part of the 1960s British motor racing scene.<ref name=GUB>{{cite book | title=On the Roof of the World (The Guardian's anthology of climbing articles)| first=Richard | last=Nelsson | isbn=978-0852651209 | date=2009 | publisher=Guardian Books | pages=198–200}}</ref>  His education at the [[Uppingham School]] was a difficult one, with Dawes suffering from periods of depression and bullying.<ref name=GUAR5/><ref name=SMR/>

Dawes rejected the career path of his contemporaries into third-level education and then a likely London-based career, choosing instead to obsess on climbing, telling ''The Guardian'', "I was in a shut-off state, to a certain extent. When I was doing something dangerous it would wake me up".<ref name=GUAR5/>

In 2011, Dawes was diagnosed with [[hypothyroidism]], which he called "depressing and heavy"; by 2018, treatment enabled him to climb at {{climbing grade|8b+}}.<ref name=8b/>