In reply to Mr Fuller:
> (In reply to UKC News) That's pretty cool.
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> Obviously Italy has a totally different ethic to the UK, but would it ever get to the point where someone removed the bolts because they thought they were unnecessary?
Revelations 8a+/b (
http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=15490 ) has been solo'ed at Raven Tor..in 1985.....perhaps one of the hardest UK headpoints by Antoine Le Menestrel and only a year after Moffat's first ascent of this old aid line.
Does that mean that the bolts should be removed because of the 'British ethic' (what is that ethic exactly, where retro bolting of trad routes is now accepted).
There is a bit of a trend, in the USA and other places, where routes protected by bolts, are climbed without, usually the bolts stay in.
M