President of the BMC advocates – Bolting (6 Mar 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Bolts Everwhere: http://www.safercliffs.org/code/photos.html Interestingly, the President of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC), Dave Musgrove, has openly advocated the bolting of natural, unquarried cliffs rock in the United Kingdom. On the Internet site, Rockfax.com, on Sunday the 2 March, 2002, he wrote: ‘OK – lets get drilling.’ He gave a big thanks to all those who contributed to the Yorshire Bolting Fund the princely sum of 732 pounds sterling that was raised recently and organised event, an event that quite obviously was supported by the – BMC.
This course of action, is against the wishes of the vast majority of British climbers whom, the BMC purports to represent.?? In 2007, the BMC bought, and flooded, the UK climbing scene with – 10,000 expansion bolts http://upload.pbase.com/images/122148350/original no, BMC bolts do not grow on trees…
Category : Bolts
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