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	<title>Mountain Clients &#187; Bolts</title>
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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>
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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 Leader Ladders (13 Jan 2008)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-leader-ladders-13-jan-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-leader-ladders-13-jan-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Mountaineering Council &#8216;new initiative&#8217; 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 &#8216;Leader Ladder&#8217; in the world. Not content with the &#8216;Rape&#8217; of the worlds mountains thus far, Mt Kinabalu has finally (2007 &#8211; 2008) succumbed to the &#8216;nut and bolt&#8217; brigade&#8230; Can&#8217;t climb? Bolt! Don&#8217;t forget that the so-called British Mountaineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolts &amp; Chipped Holds Everywhere (Oct 2007 &#8211; May, 09)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bolts-bolts-everywhere-24-oct-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 crags and mountain rock faces by its members &#8211; drilling and placing expansion bolts. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President of the BMC advocates &#8211; Bolting (6 Mar 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/president-of-the-bmc-advocates-bolting-6-mar-2003/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/president-of-the-bmc-advocates-bolting-6-mar-2003/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 wrote: &#8216;OK &#8211; lets get drilling.&#8217; He gave a big thanks to all those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMC &amp; UIAA Proposals 2003 (20 Feb 2003)</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-uiaa-proposals-2003-20-feb-2003/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-uiaa-proposals-2003-20-feb-2003/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Marco Scolaris, President of the UIAA Council for Competiton Climbing (introducing young people to climbing using expansion bolts):&#8217;The UIAA-ICC want all young people to have the opportunity to try indoor climbing (once again introducing young people to climbing on expansion bolts) as they already do in some (mis-guided) countries as part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Climb? Bolt! BMC Bolt &amp; Chipping Workshop&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/cant-climb-bolt-attend-a-bmc-bolting-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/cant-climb-bolt-attend-a-bmc-bolting-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 winter climbing &#8211; jolly &#8211; for visiting climbing prima donnas. The representative, but would be, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chedder Gorge, SSI, Bolted by members of the BMC</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/chedder-bolted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/chedder-bolted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t Climb? Bolt! The Rape of Cheddar Gorge by members of the BMC 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 himself (with able assistance from the so-called British Mountaineering Council) to deliberately damage, by drilling and inserting over 1,000 expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMC Bolt &amp; Chipping Workshop&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-bolting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-bolting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Mountaineering Council Supports Bolting (deliberate damage to unquarried rock) http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=301834 BMC Guidebook&#8217;s Sales Back Bolting&#8230; Pete Livesey:&#8221;Malham Cove &#8211; what must the Nature Conservancy Council think, with the conservationist BMC permitting bolting on a very fine and admired geological SSSI?&#8221; Pete, would turn in his grave if he knew about the British Mountaineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BMC Bolts and Chippings</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-bolts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/bmc-bolts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Mountaineering Council (or the Association of Democratic and Liberal Minded Climbers) Supports Bolting. http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=301834 http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=150200   Longships Wall at Lands End damaged by vandals: July, 2010, more damage to unquarried Cornish granite has been found. Longships Wall at Lands End is the latest rock climbing venue to be damaged this time, &#8216;someone&#8217; has resorted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Livesey Retrobolts</title>
		<link>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/pete-livesey-retrobolts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/pete-livesey-retrobolts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>denzuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Livesey (prophetically) &#8211; Retrobolts &#8211; The Back Page Climber and Hill Walker Magazine &#8216;It has come to my attention recently that some climbers are using bolts for protection and that there&#8217;s a big argument about it that&#8217;s stretched from  a phone-in on Radio Lancashire right through the columns of The Independent to the office [...]]]></description>
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