The British Mountaineering Council Exists… (10 May 2002)
June 2nd, 2008 Posted in BMC‘It (the BMC) exists to further the interests of mountaineering as a whole, and it will succees in this in so far as it receives the full support of each and every mountaineer… It should be needless to add that there will be no attempt to introduce anything so foolish as a qualification scheme for ‘mountain leaders’.’ G. A. Dummett, Pembroke College, Cambridge. 1946. By embracing Climbing Competitions and qualifications of little value, 56 years later, the BMC still does not have the full support of all mountaineers…
IGO 8000 continues its Dirty Tricks campaign in the Himalayas
A ‘full page’ letter has been published in the September, 2001 issue of High Mountain Sport complaining about the service offered by a none member of IGO 8000, Adventure Extreme. Whilst similar letters, complaining about fatal accidents to IGO 8000 clients or climbers on IGO 8000 Permits, those letters have never been published (will never be) published in the same magazine. The letter was sent to the magazine by Steve Bell (it is not known where he got the letter from) a founder member of – IGO 8000…
On the 30 April, 2002, IGO 8000 lost another client on Mount Everest…