The living rock: the origins of climbing in Australia

This site is an archive of documents, images, interviews and other information relevant to the origins of climbing in Australia. Comments are welcome (meadowsmh@gmail.com). Text copyright 2024 M.Meadows. Copyright to photographs is held by named photographers. Please request permission to reproduce.

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Hooked on climbing This is the story of adventure climbing in Australia—a philosophical approach to exploring the landscape that barely surv...

Sharing the country Indigenous people explored many of the high places in Australia for millennia before the white settler invasion. Creatio...

Researcher-climber Robert Thomson who has spent years trawling through archival materials to gather much of the information presented in thi...

'The living rock'

The nature of climbing in Australia varies significantly from state to state. Queensland has a climate generally more favourable than most f...

Introduction On almost any evening in the centre of the Queensland capital, Brisbane, rockclimbers gather at Kangaroo Point cliffs to scale...

The author/blogger ...enjoying life on Scarab , Bundaleer, in 2000. Picture: By Ian Thomas, Michael Meadows collection

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