Mountain Clients

After years of enticing young peolpe (no lower age limit) to sample climbing on artificial climbing walls and rock climbing outdoors, the BMC isnow backpeddling on its responsibility to those young persons. After advertising aimed at youngsters, the BMC then allowed them to be endangered (see any climbing competition for young people) by allowing them to climb without wearing correct head protection. According to visitors to the BMC sponsored, Rockfax website (Dec 2003). That this is happening at a time when one observer noted: ‘A climber a week has died this winter (2010) in Scotland. I this acceptable?’