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25.01.2022 Tough times... day 71 of lockdown for some... Hang in there folks, surely things will get better? I hope some dreaming of limestone caves on faraway islands somehow helps... Simon Montmory (@kalymnosclimbingguide) on Typhoon (7c), Crystal Cave, Telendos Island near Kalymnos, Greece.

25.01.2022 Dave Jones (@dave_in_transience) on his Leaps (30), The Bluffs, Mount Arapiles. Back in the day. #throwback #film

25.01.2022 Save Grampians Climbing have written another good article that should help get you up to date on the Taipan ban etc. Thank you! Perhaps the main point is that the bans appears to be something of a bluff from Parks Victoria. Contrary to information that myself and others initially received about all this, it appears that there has NOT been an Interim Protection Order paced around Taipan. Well, not yet anyway. Parks Victoria's press release is, cough, a little "unclear" I gu...ess. But when you look at the wording on the sign that they have now erected, it's a "temporary protection zone" and no regulations are quoted on the sign. That seems to be a new one, are they just making this stuff up on the fly? @acav_official https://savegrampiansclimbing.org/2020//20/divided-we-fall/

24.01.2022 It's official! After many distractions, Neil Monteith (author) and I (photographer, designer, shit-kicker) have started work again on the long awaited Sydney Climbing guidebook. Boom! #Psyched! It's gonna be awesome because... - Climbing is awesome! ... - Sydney climbing is awesome! - The level of stoke in Sydney is, as we know, sky-high! - We make super user-friendly guidebooks, full of high-quality thoroughly-researched information and packed with inspiration -- and they are awesome! - And yes, this book is way overdue! Now... if only Matthew Brooks (pictured) could likewise get to work on his projects again. I noticed there's a fair few of them sprinkled around. This one at The Junkyard Cave, in the city's SW.

22.01.2022 Pretty psyched to get this print back from the framers today, they have done an awesome job! Bit of a long story behind this one. Firstly the image I shot many years ago on film. Whilst not a typical kind of image that I'm known for, I've always personally liked it and thought it would make a great print for the splash of colour it would bring into a room... Also, some years I dabbled with the idea of getting into limited edition prints so I got this one printed up and num...bered it number 1 of 50. But soon after that I decided against doing limited edition prints altogether. Doof! Basically I decided it was better to keep the pricing more accessible and I am happy if people simply buy my images for no other reason than that they like them. So I never put the framed print up for sale. But now I've finally had it reframed, to remove the limited edition numbering and will soon be putting it up for sale at one of the local galleries - but thought I'd offer it it up here first. The price is $400 plus shipping, though I'm happy to deliver it free in the Blue Mtns or Sydney area. Contact me directly by DM or email [email protected] First in best dressed. Incidentally, you can order this image (or any of my images) but with different framing via my website. The closest to this on my web site would be a 16x24" (40.6x61cm) print with a simple white frame. That image would be very slightly larger but the overall framing would be slightly smaller than what I'm holding - because the matting on the website prints is 6cm, whereas what I'm holding here is 12cm. The framed print, ordered from my website, would normally cost $460 but is on sale for $414 currently. As always, feel free to hit me up with your print queries. And have a red hot weekend. See more

19.01.2022 Caption this. Because... "Sometimes in life it's important to take your time and smell the roses...."... Is a bit too f'n cliched. Don't you think? Besides, they ain't roses... Climber is Charlie Woodburn (@charliewoodburn) leading Herod (E1, 5b), Mother Carey's Kitchen, Pembroke, Wales, UK.

19.01.2022 If you happen to think that this pic looks a little idyllic, well let me tell you this.... Whilst we were climbing each morning, the boatman went spear fishing and caught lobsters which were cooked for our lunch. Yes read that last bit again, it is entirely true! This is one of the islands in the Nosy Hara Archipelago, off the coast of northern Madagascar. Unfortunately it took four days of travel to get there. Still, the memories were worth it. Climber: Jean-Francios Reffe...t, L’île aux Trésors (6b+), Sector Mozambique, on Nosy Anjombalova. #goodtimes #throwback #film

19.01.2022 Ok folks, last call for action! If you care about climbing access in Australia, please help! The deadline is upon us. Today is the last day for submissions on P...arks Victoria's disastrous draft Management Plan which will absolutely decimate climbing and eliminate bouldering in the Grampians. Deadline for submissions is tonight, at midnight, Sunday 24th of January 2021, Eastern Australian time. Making a submission of your own is really easy and a lot more effective than just adding your name to a list: 1. Go to: https://acav.climb.org.au/.../acav-submission-draft-gglmp/ 2. Edit the Word document of recommendations as you wish. 3. Send the word document as an attachment, or copy it into the body of your email. Alternatively, simply link to the ACAV's entire 22 page submission and endorse that. You will find the link for that on the same page which is linked above. 4. Add a few words of your own if you like and email to [email protected] Thank you!

19.01.2022 Yes! Guidebooks .

18.01.2022 This vid that we made popped up in my timeline memories. Taipan Wall, Chris Sharma, 7 years ago. Sadly significant again now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOvm3nrGhvQ&feature=youtu.be

18.01.2022 Breaking news... ALL OF TAIPAN and half on BUNDALEER - all gone! BANNED.... No discussion. Nothing.

17.01.2022 This is the saddest news out of Victoria with Glenn Tempest putting a halt to his guidebook production due to the uncertainty over the access situation. Really feeling for Glenn and his wife Karen about this. This would have been a heartbreaking decision. There will be ramifications, it’s easy to underestimate the importance of quality guidebooks. We put a halt to a new Grampians guidebook last year for the same reasons. I echo Glenn’s disappointment with both Parks Victoria and the relevant Traditional Owners for their mishandling and lack of engagementwith the climbing community for this outcome which is looking incredibly counterproductive to me. Using the completely unnecessary destruction of climbing, communities and business as a political weapon is hardly condusive to genuine reconciliation.

16.01.2022 Julian Saunders on his Chicane (29), Taipan Wall, The Grampians, back in the day. Join @acav_official - www.acav.climb.org.au ------------

12.01.2022 The Jamison Valley blanketed by an inversion layer with Mount Solitary in the background. Blue Mountains, Australia. Buy print --> https://www.onsight.com.au/product/solitary/

09.01.2022 So Taipan is now banned.... Six weeks ago I visited Taipan for what may well turn out for the last time in my life. With the possibility that that was the case in my mind, just prior to abseiling over the edge to take some photos of some other climbers, I stopped, sat for a moment on the top of the cliff, took it all in and I shed a little tear. It's not just perhaps the most beautiful wall that I’ve ever had the privilege to spend time on anywhere in the world, it is also a ...wall that personally means so much to me. Back in my prime, I had some of the best days of my life on that wall. But the tear I shed was not just at the thought that this might be my last day up there, I realise my days there were slowly coming to an end probably anyway After so much time over 30 years on that wall, I can hardly complain. No, above all else I felt sadness for the current generations of climbers for what they might lose -- and the future generations of climbers who would, sadly, never ever understand what they would miss out on. And so my fear has been realised. We thought it might be coming, everything had been pointing to this. There is a very small mount of stone quarrying in few places along the base of the wall. Nothing that had been damaged by climbers as far as I know. Don't see how any sort of bans would be needed to protect and preserve that. But the severity and timing of these bans is not something that we anticipated. We thought it possible the area would be designated a SPA in the new Management Plan; draft due out in the coming months. But this ban is a lot harsher than that (though we’ve yet to explore the legal basis of it). And it comes at a time when Melbourne climbers are in lockdown due to Covid only allowed one hour outside every day, and not allowed to travel more than 5km from home. I feel that the way the government and Parks Victoria have gone about this -- no consultation and and the timing is utterly despicable and malicious. I feel this is political but just don’t see how this is helpful for reconciliation. Very sad day indeed. Glad I got to say goodby. Good article in Save Grampians Climbing yesterday. www.savegrampiansclimbing.org Join & donate: @acav_official

08.01.2022 One of the things I'm really looking forward to this year is getting back in the harnesses and shooting a load more climbing pics again. Between politics and everything else that has been going on, there has been no shortage of reminders of the awesomeness of climbing. Not that I needed much of a reminder but I sure do look forward to sharing more of the stoke with you all soon. To kick it off, here's a recent new pic of Jacques Beaudoin attempting his very hard Mother E...arth trad project*, somewhere .... ... actually, I'm struggling to tell you where it is! It's not just that everything doesn't need to be sprayed about on the internet, it's also because I actually don't know. Heck, I'm just glad to have survived the day. I met Jacques at the Mount Vic train station at 8am sharp as instructed, but it wasn't just Jacques there to meet me... a couple of big burly bearded blokes with dark wraparound sunglasses jumped out of a dual cab, grabbed me, threw me in the back, blindfolded me and told me to shut up. "Stop your whining, we don't want to hear about that Grampians shit..." and "You'll get what's coming Carter...". They said. I was terrified. After between 20 minutes and two hours of bouncing around on rough dirt roads, sliding sideways around corners, possibly going around in circles... We finally parked, somewhere in the bush, deadly quiet, no one for around for many miles... I expected to be given a shovel and told to dig myself a shallow grave... So you could imagine I was somewhat relieved to find we were just taking an easy stroll to the crag. And, bonus, I got to spend the day being entertained photographing a variety of try-hard trad action. Phew! Just don't ask me where it is, or my next trip may not end so well... ** * It's a closed project. ** Parts of this story might be a little embellished. See more

08.01.2022 I had the "pleasure" of being interviewed on ABC radio with James Valentine this afternoon about the Nowra route name issue. https://www.abc.net.au//pro/after...noons/afternoons/12528416 Tune in right near the end at the 2:48:10 mark, for the start of the segment. If you don't know what this is about, it all follows an ABC report this morning: https://www.abc.net.au//push-for-sexist-racist-ho/12546620 Which follows a massive debate on the Melbourne Climbing Facebook group page about six weeks ago. As publisher of the Nowra guidebook I have of course followed this issue since it flared up overseas. I've discussed it with the main contributing authors of the Nowra guidebook. We're aware of the issues and have contacted some first ascentionists (thanks Rob) and have about 50 route names which will be changed in the next edition at the approval of -- or at the suggestion of -- the first ascentionists themselves. But there is no rush because we won't be producing a new edition of the guidebook for about two years. When it's time to be working on the update, we will sit down and look at it all, work through the changes and do anything else we need to do. Of course we want climbing to be an inclusive "sport". However it is an issue of balance. Documenting history vs sanitisation and censorship. Respecting the wishes of first ascentionists vs running the risk of alienating or offending someone. Etc. Where do you draw the line? As the first ascentionists of many potentially problematic routes names are offering changes themselves, it a problem largely solved just by that. My opinion is that the problem with some route names would actually be easily solved by providing more context, more history and background, about those names in their route descriptions. It's not possible or desirable to cater for every possibility that something might be taken out of context. I am immensely proud of the work the team and I put into the Nowra guidebook in 2016. Climbers now have an excellent, accurate, easy to use book to help them maximise their time at the crag. NSW police rescue now have a resource which they may well rely on if they need to quickly locate a climber who has had an accident. But it was a first edition. It was an incredible amount of work for all involved just to get it finished. A bit more context and history is something I'm very keen to work on for the next edition. Please, buy a guidebook, support what we're doing and help make our work easier. Thank you to everyone who already does. I'm just disappointed this issue became public like this. I've spoken with the guidebook's authors -- but not one other person has bothered to reach out and contact me about the issue, raise their concerns privately, ask what I as publisher planned to do about it, what the best way to go about it might be. So I feel this public debate has all been rather unnecessary, divisive and damaging. Sign of the times. It is what it is, I guess. Peace out.

04.01.2022 Caption this! I was thinking something like... "There are moments in life... when it really pays to... Not. Fuck. Up!" Climber is Ben Heason leading Slipstream (E5, 6b), on Rainbow Slab, Llanberis Slate Quarries, Wales, UK.... The image is a scan of an ancient piece of Velvia film, shot in an era long before them digital things came along...

04.01.2022 Abby Watkins on the infamous Split Pillar pitch (pitch 6, 5.10b), of the Grand Wall, (10 pitches, 5.11a) on the Stawamus Chief, Squamish, BC, Canada. ------------ #throwback #film

03.01.2022 Great time to be an indoor boulderer in Sydney with the massive new 9 Degrees Waterloo gym opening this Saturday! I got a sneak peak doing these photos for them and this place is going to be awesome. Humungous. And complete with a full size Kilterbaord. Good times! Check it out. I believe bookings are required. Opens 8am Saturday.... For more info see www.9degrees.com.au/bookings

01.01.2022 I did a podcast! It's a long interview... all your questions and much more answered if you can handle over an hour of my voice... Many thanks to Steven from Nugget Climbing Podcast!