In reply to Neil Amos:
Hi Neil,
Having climbed together with you in Font, you know how much the area means to me.
When it comes to our timing I'll admit that we were late; however, last week - in/around the time that this was unfolding - we were (rightly) focussing all of our efforts on the server attack that had taken place, not least because we had a legal (and moral) obligation to do so.
When it comes to being 'painfully late', I feel like you're holding us to quite an exacting set of standards. To add a degree of context, Planet Grimpe - the French climbing website - only reported on this yesterday. Across the Atlantic neither Climbing Magazine or Rock and Ice have reported the issue, and closer to home it hasn't received a single mention by Climber Magazine. Most news reports on the matter were published in/around the 16-17th (Planet Mountain etc..), which is exactly when we were in the midst of figuring out quite what to do + how to respond to the server attack.
As per another comment I made within a separate thread, what I always say to people is why not drop us a quick message? We're far from being uncontactable, plus in this scenario we even know each other, so I find it strange when people only decide to write a letter of complaint post event, when it could so easily have solved by a quick message prior.
When it comes to your final comment regarding whether there's a political reason behind this, I genuinely don't understand what you're implying - that we're somehow in the pay of oil giants, or that we love fossil fuels, or that we think Font would somehow be better for this?! We aren't Bond villains sitting behind our desks, we're people - climbers - hence I am not only confused by the comment - I am also quite taken aback by it.