Mount Everest – 50 Years On (9 Jul 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »During the 50th Anniversary (2003) celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest by a New Zealand climber and a Nepalese Sherpa, the British press laughed in the face of British mountaineering: 'No One Climbs Everest. British Mountaineers celebrate Coronation ...
The Mount Everest Circus (28 May 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »BBC New, Wednesday, 28 may, 2003: 'Sir Edmund Hillary as finally spoken out against the commercial climbing circus surrounding Mount Everest. Give the mountain a rest, stop the commercial expeditions for one year.' Stop the commercial expeditions for good! Sir Hillary, ...
Trouble at the top – Mount Everest 1953/03 (26 May 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »'Trouble at the top,' So wrote Stephen Venables in The Sunday Times, May 25, 2003: 'Everest 'altitude tourists' have excelled themselves in crass behaviour on this great anniversary.' 50 years after the first ascent of Everest and this majestic mountain ...
The Scouts Association – Be Prepared… (29 Jan 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »"The Scouts committee of the Council (in 2002) believes that they are in grave risk from an outside body imposing regulatory restrictions upon them." Step forward, the BMC and the BMG... The Scouts Association should - Be Prepared, for an ...
Climbing Journalism v Press Jornalists (16 Jan 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »On Friday, 1st of December, 2000, I received an email from a press jornalist who had written to Geoff Birtles (pointing out inaccuracies in climbing journalism) who had printed an article by Joe Simpson who castigated press jornalists for the ...
What Would You Teach Children? (21 Dec 2002)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »In a recent interview (Dec 2002) when asked the question:"What would you teach children", John Gill one of America´'s all time great climbers replied:"I do not believe in - recruiting climbers. Especially very young climbers. For me, climbing has to ...
Heinrich Harrer SS Officer (16 Jun 2003)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »On the 21 November, 2002, British climbers attended a talk by Heinrich Harrer the ex-Nazi SS Officer (membership number 6307081) who had been invited to give a discourse by the Royal Geographical Society. For fifty years, Harrer refused to admit ...
Low Altitude Sickness (6 Nov 2007)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »Now this a new one. Apparently, climbers have been dying annually whilst climbing mountains below 20, 000ft from - low altitude sickness. This new revelation, idea, appeared in an unsoliced email from Patrick Kenny an Himalayan mountain guide on the ...
UIAGM/IFMGA Alpine Accidents Sub-Committee (14 Apr 2002)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc | No Comments »During its 1998 Conference in Bavaria on the 19-21 November, the UIAGM/IFMGA reported on the setting-up of an: Alpine Accidents sub-committee. The sub-committee formed in 1997, created a panel of 'experts' to review accidents. Apparently, Erich Gutgsell reported on the ...
Unacceptable Behaviour
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Misc, Mountain Clients | Comments OffUnacceptable Behaviour Towards Mountain Clients. There comes a time, when the guy who pays for the 'damn thing' gets to say a few words - of his own: Ian, is a fine; honest, safe, upstanding and lets face it, a virile ...