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Araps/Buffalo '85 Climbing Movie 20-Apr-2011 At 6:10:13 PM BA

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On 19/04/2011 pmonks wrote:

>Great video btw, and thanks for sharing it! Does anyone have that early
>/ mid 1980s ABC doco set at Araps? I have an ultra-vague memory of seeing
>it on TV at the time (more than a decade before I took up climbing) and
>would love to see it again!

Would that be the "International Climbing Meet" at Araps? the VCC tried to get a copy of that some years back but the ABC marketing department put a rather hefty price tag on it. When it was broadcast there were some technical hitches and unannounced they showed it full again the following night. They also put a big price on other things that they filmed but never showed on TV. Baxter and Dewhurst on Tourist Buttress at Rosea for example. Other things that were broadcast were Ewbank and others on Dogface having hamburgers lowered to them and more besides. The ABC has a decent collection of Australian climbing history locked away in their vaults, all it takes is someone with many dollars to unlock it.