BMC State of British Climbing Open Debates

The BMC have arranged a series of Open Debates in September, October and November at venues across the country. The debates are looking at the 'State of British Climbing' and are backed up by a series of articles over the next 3 issues of Summit magazine. The first article, published in the next issue looks at the 'BIG ISSUES' facing climbing today.

Dave Turnbull, BMC head honcho says "The overall objective is get people thinking (and taking action) about the main issues facing British climbing today - the issues which climbers are really bothered about - bolts and deteriorating fixed gear, vegetated/redundant crags, guidebooks, access problems.."

Open debates will take place in Birmingham, Llanberis, Skipton and London and will include panels from some of the UK's leading activists. For more details, see this Premier Post

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john horscroft

8 Sep, 2004

How about the state of fixed gear? So many crags, so much rotting tat, old pegs etc. Replace like for like or bolts? What do you reckon?

BelleVedere

8 Sep, 2004

Its not somthing that greatly affects my climbing (selfish i know) so not top of my priorities, i can see the value in replacing bolts and the likes to make them safe. Should it be the BMC's responsibility though?

James Rowe

8 Sep, 2004

Onr thing immediately springs to mind - some kind of scheme for recycling old gear: for example 'rocks' and 'friends' are relatively easy to dismantle into their constituent components and then be melted down, and there must be some use for old rope, otherwise its just quite specialised materials ending up in landfill. I suppose this would come under the heading of lessening the environmental impact of climbing. James.

GrahamD

8 Sep, 2004

I think teaching or even actively encourageing climbing goes way beyond the remit of the representative body. In fact, given that they have a mandate to look after access and represent us on matters environmental, you could argue that they should actively discourage more crag users ! If you want support, though, the mechanism which already exists is the nation wide network of clubs (the BMC was originally just an affiliation of clubs).

GrahamD

8 Sep, 2004

For me, the main debate is what is the BMC's role, if any, in policing agreed local bolting/fixed pro policies.

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