In reply to Cusco:
> But the bit about members of the Climbers' Club urinating on him as he abseiled back down is quite disturbing, particularly if it was deliberate. What was all that about?!
> Can't really imagine it happening these days.
Hmm... In the 1970s, I was making the second ascent of a route in the Mournes, immediately after the first. Pulling round an overhang, I received an 'unwonted precipitation', courtesy of the first ascentionist. It seems that he was a tad miffed at my somewhat casual approach to his, ahem, masterpiece. He is, I am informed, currently a pillar of the legal establishment (the phraseology providing a subtle key to his identity.)
Mick