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34? 5-Apr-2004 At 1:03:39 PM shmalec

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For something to be deemed valid you need a criteria and an assessor. Other than a bunch of people posting on a forum, there is neither in this case. Australian climbing is not regulated by any official organisation (thank god!) and hence a climb such as this cannot be deemed valid or invalid. All that can be done is for the history/facts of the case to be recorded in places where facts are recorded. So guidebooks, journals, mags etc need to write it the way it is. This is what has happened in the past and will continue to happen until some horrid day when some beaurocracy takes over with recognased criteria.

Other than that its basically a personal decision to be argued in the pub by those that care.

The issue of the goodness or evil of chipping has been well and truly discussed here and a big effort to decide validity is a waste of time.