Chris Jones (November 24, 1939 – September 17, 2024) was a British–American rock climber, photographer, climbing historian, author, and alpinist. He is known for establishing difficult and influential alpine styleclimbing routes from 1965–1980 in the Andes and the Canadian Rockies.[1][2] He was the author of Climbing in North America, one of the earliest books on the history of climbing in North America from the 1800s to the 1970s.[3][4]