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		<title>Whilst Feathering its Own Nest with Government Handouts…</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2010/05/whilst-feathering-its-own-nest-with-government-handouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 07:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not for the first time, the so-called British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has interfered with others offering services to climbers. In 2001, the BMC threatened to sue Rockfax: http://rockfax.com/alanjames/2007/11/08/relections-on-the-guidbook-debate-of-2001 being a typical example. Rockfax of course, does not received government subsidies (as does the BMC) to waste on threatening others&#8230; Or, BMC Loans.?]]></description>
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		<title>BMC (British Mountaineeering Council) Bolts do not grow on trees</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2010/02/bmc-british-mountaineeering-council-bolts-do-not-grow-on-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its official:  http://upload.pbase.com/images/122148350/original http://www.thebmc.co.uk/Feature.aspx?id=1928 During the &#8216;planting&#8217; of a myriad of expansion bolts in the floor of Horseshoe Quarry &#8216;particular care had been taken not to damage any interesting &#8211; coral-bed-fossil features.&#8217; As one wag put it: &#8216;BMC bolts do not grow on trees&#8217;, how true. If you cannot climb? Bolt!And don&#8217;t forget to practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMC Name Change (17 Jul 2007)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-name-change-17-jul-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the so-called British Mountaineering Council (BMC) is to &#8216;change its name&#8217;. To what I wonder? Britain&#8217;s Mad Bolters? Or maybe &#8211; The Council of British Bolters? Regardless of what its name is changed to, it will not cover-up the damage that this organisation has done to British climbing&#8230;in the last fifty years.]]></description>
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		<title>The BMC has too much money &#8211; Shock (7 Jan 2004)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/the-bmc-has-too-much-money-shock-7-jan-2004/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Rockfax.com website (Jan 6, 2004) the BMC is refusing to take on further membership &#8211; shock. Apparently, those with a vested interest in making money from; through the BMC via its two teir membership fees (club members pày less that individual members &#8211; another shock) and substantial government grants, were shocked to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMC Will Not Loose its £147,000 Grant (22 Sep 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-will-not-loose-its-147000-grant-22-sep-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;interests&#8217; of all, hill walkers, rock climbers, mountaineers and now, ski mountaineers, has &#8216;lost&#8217; £500,000 (god knows where) in the last three years, is apparently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Joining the BMC? (20 Oct 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/thinking-of-joining-the-bmc-20-oct-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Nigel Shepherd, writer, photographer, BMG mountain guide, who when an instructor at Plas-y-Brenin, North Wales wrote: &#8216;Does British climbing really need an organisation such as the BMC (British Mountaineering Council)&#8217;? Especially as the organisation is adept at wasting taxpayers and members money: The much acclaimed Festival of Climbing arranged by the BMC in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IGO 8000 (29 Jan 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/igo-8000-29-jan-2003/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know, just&#160; how to treat their clients in the Himalayas&#8230; Mountaineering, being brought into further disrepute, becoming somewhat &#8211; callous and shabby. Read on:&#160; http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/fyi/2001/1112/054_2.html]]></description>
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		<title>BMC Posts &#8211; Another £167,000 Loss (28 Oct 03)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-posts-another-167000-loss-28-oct-03/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-posts-another-167000-loss-28-oct-03/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the April, 2002 edition of Climber magazine, the British Mountaineering Council has posted another annual loss. In 2000, the BMC recorded a loss of £62,000 and in 2001 the organisation that purports to represents all &#8211; hill walkers, climbers and mountaineers had a deficit of £167,000. The BMC also admitted that the Festival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The British Mountaineering Council Exists&#8230; (10 May 2002)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/the-british-mountaineering-council-exists-10-may-2002/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/the-british-mountaineering-council-exists-10-may-2002/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;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&#8230; It should be needless to add that there will be no attempt to introduce anything so foolish as a qualification scheme for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cronies Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/cronies-corner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timesonline, July 21, 2006: &#8216;Matthews ruling sets a significant precedent&#8230;&#8217; http://timesonline.typepad.com/law_weblog/2006/07/matthews_ruling.html Representative for the British Mountaineering Council slanders Mounteverest.net (2006)&#8230; http://mounteverest.net/news.php?id=10265 Cronies Corner (extracts taken from the No 1128 issue of Private Eye) http://groups.msn.com/InformationforMountainClients/plasybrenin.msnw Further to the Cronyism page, Private Eye published (18 March, 2005) an interesting article: &#8216;Cronies Corner&#8217; regarding the shake-up at the [...]]]></description>
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