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Ralph Hutchinson was born in Tanganyika in 1930, he was educated in Kenya and England and spoke fluent Swahili. After studying law at Cambridge University in England, he moved to Canada in 1954. He was working at an insurance firm in Vancouver when he met, and later married, Dorothy Johnstone and took up his other passion, mountain climbing. Hutchinson joined the BC Mountaineering Club [BCMC] shortly there after. He arrived in Nanaimo around 1960. In 1961, while working as a lawyer in Nanaimo, Ralph Hutchinson was a member of the four person Canadian expedition to summit Mt. McKinley. He lost four of his toes on this climb due to frostbite. He later became a Nanaimo, BC Supreme Court Justice, retiring in 2002. Hutchinson gave the name to one of the best-known hiking trails on the mid-Island, the Judge's Route on Mount Arrowsmith.