Mountain Clients

As reported in several climbing magazines, the BMC is not to loose its 2004 Sport England grant after all. Even though the climbing organisation that purports to look after the ‘interests’ of all, hill walkers, rock climbers, mountaineers and now, ski mountaineers, has ‘lost’ £500,000 (god knows where) in the last three years, is apparently, still ‘qualifies’ for a further – £147,000 of taxpayers hard earned money.? One would have thought that this situation; this waste of taxpayers money would have ceased by the time that the 2008 recesion had started to bite; when billions of taxpayers money was wasted in bailing out national Banks who had caused the debacle. To the contrary, in the face of stringent cut-backs in public facilities a further £450,000 per annum the government gives to Plas-y-Brenin (the supposed National Mountain centre in North Wales) is still in place. While government cut-backs cut across every aspect of people lives the almost half a million given to PyB each year appears safe…