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Sports Climbers Bring Climbing into Disrepute (7 Nov 2005)

June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Mountain Clients
E-mail from Anthony Morgan, Director of the TarmacWestern´s Operations: ´Dear Mr Morrod, You say in your opening statement that Tarmac have allowed climbers to access Pant Quarry and use bolts to facilitate their "sport".
This could not be further from the truth. Tarmac have been involved in a running battle with climbers trespassing (illegaly of course) at Pant Quarry despite all of the signage posted and our best efforts to secure the site. We ourselves enlisted the help of authorised climbers to remove bolts in an act to dissuade people from using the Quarry in this way.
I hope that Tarmac can call upon your support by dissuading climbers (whether using bolts or not) from entering this site and blatantly breaking the law. Yours sincerely, Anthony Morgan.’ Ha, fat chance of that (getting members of the BMC to act in a considerate and legal manner) Mr Morgan.   

  1. One Response to “Sports Climbers Bring Climbing into Disrepute (7 Nov 2005)”

  2. By denzuki on Jul 26, 2008

    The introducion of 10,000 ‘free bolts’ by the British Mountaineering Counil in 2007 thus flooding the UK climbing scene, against the wishes of the vast majority of the UK’s ‘real’climbers, flies in the face of Tarmac’s attempts at removing bolts from UK climbing.

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