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Why rope access kooks have no place in climbing 7-May-2015 At 11:55:42 AM Macciza

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Not sure what sort of 'precedence' you think that get . . .
If anything the commercial operators pay for the ability to be regulated, and get told how many people and which locations they can operate, particularly canyoning which i also believe is season regulated. Numbers are limited for group safety and to try to avoid overcrowding and to ensure that ordinary non-paying punters have a chance as well. There are other reasons that also affect access to areas and the commercial operators are required to work within whatever guidelines they are issued.

Re commercial climbing instruction, this generally isn't in large groups and again the commercial operators are probably more limited by parks then the experienced recreational climbers who provide instruction to friends at crags, let alone just general climber groups . ..
Mind you I think the focus of this discussion is on rope-access commercial operators involvement in recreational climbing and whether bolting should be to 'industry standards', but I may be wrong . . .