General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM	30-Mar-2004 At 3:54:15 PM	BDee
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Ethical quandary re retro bolting. Mike Law put up XI (18) at Arapiles in the Golden Age of development. Ten years later he repeated the route and found the bottom half life threatening so he added two carrot bolts. Controversy ensued - climbers were stunned - nobody had faced such an ethics issue since Joe Simpson cut the rope. Keiran Logran (sp?), always the one to consult about such curly issues, chopped the bolts. He reasoned that the route had to be restored to the style in which the original ascensionist left it ,,, originally. Tackle this question but don't disappear up your own spouts. Be warned, this story may be apocryphal - I'm not sure - I'm just passing it on.

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