BMC Leader Ladders (13 Jan 2008)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | No Comments »The British Mountaineering Council 'new initiative' has reached new heights: http://www.getoutdoors.com/goblog/index.php?/archives/2532-Worlds+Highest+Via+Ferrata-On-Mt.-Kinabalu.html Step forward the highest 'Leader Ladder' in the world. Not content with the 'Rape' of the worlds mountains thus far, Mt Kinabalu has finally (2007 - 2008) succumbed to ...
Bolts, Bolts Everywhere (24 Oct 2007 - May, 09)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | No Comments »Regardless of the human rights of none BMC members; the vast majority of UK climbers who do not wish to see the environment damaged by drilling, the British Mountaineering Council is determined to continue to push for the deliberate damaging of British ...
President of the BMC advocates - Bolting (6 Mar 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | No Comments »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 ...
BMC & UIAA Proposals 2003 (20 Feb 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | No Comments »According to Marco Scolaris, President of the UIAA Council for Competiton Climbing (introducing young people to climbing using expansion bolts):'The UIAA-ICC want all young people to have the opportunity to try indoor climbing (once again introducing young people to climbing ...
Can’t Climb? Bolt! Attend a BMC Bolting Workshop
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | No Comments »There Is More Trouble Ath Mill (16 March, 2005): Apparently, there is more trouble in Manchester when surprised members of the so-called British Mountaineering Council (BMC) found out that the BMC had squandered another, 12,000 pounds sterling on a Scottish ...
Chedder Bolted
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | Comments OffCan't Climb? Bolt! The Rape of Cheddar Gorge http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=229571 On the 11 August, 2007, I received an unsolicited, three page letter from Martin Crocker the individual who took it upon himelf (with able assistance from the so-called British Mountaineering Council) ...
BMC Bolting
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | Comments OffThe British Mountaineering Council Supports Bolting (deliberate damage to unquarried rock) http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=301834 BMC GuideBook Sales Back Bolting... Pete Livesey:"Malham Cove - what must the Nature Conservancy Council think, with the conservationist BMC permitting bolting on a very fine and admired geological ...
BMC Bolts
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | Comments OffThe British Mountaineering Council (or the Association of Democratic and Liberal Minded Climbers) Supports Bolting. http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=301834 Roger Payne the then National Officer of the BMC in the November, 1991, issue of Climber Magazine wrote: 'Further to Paul Mahrer's letter in the ...
Pete Livesey Retrobolts
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | Comments OffPete Livesey (prophetically) - Retrobolts - The Back Page Climber and Hill Walker Magazine 'It has come to my attention recently that some climbers are using bolts for protection and that there's a big argument about it that's stretched from a phone-in ...
Devon and Cornwall
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Bolts | Comments OffRock Climbing in Devon and Cornwall Shadows on Laughter Tor Half a league south of Postbridge, above the Huccaby Rings, stands a hill that is filled with banter, at the hour that midnight brings. Not far from the heights of Ridden Ridge, ...
