In reply to mockerkin:
> He didn't quote K. McCallum Most of his OP came from a letter sent by R.McHaffie in October 1968 to Rocksport magazine.
The OP quoted Ray McHaffie quoting Keith McCallum. I dimly remember both the letter and the article. Ray McHaffie was quite right to issue a riposte. The original article was shit-stirring par excellence. Had Keith McCallum done Post Mortem, for instance? Not to put too fine a point on it, had he done anything?
> Basically it was meant to point out that protection has always been a source of different opinions in climbing. It didn't start with bolting.
The OP seems to have found an amazingly laboured means of telling us stuff we already know. And, of course, it's not just about protection. Pegs and bolts have always been a source of different opinions in climbing, whether for aid or protection. Messner's original diatribe was against bolts for aid, not protection. The peg debates that raged from the 1930s (e.g. Munich Climb) to the 1970s were largely about aid, not protection.
Climbers argued about pegs for 40 years, then bolts for another 40. The bolt debate is more mature than the smelliest of Swiss cheeses. To be of significance, any further contributions need to have unusual merit. .
Mick