Saturday, September 17, 2005

Reds under the beds

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Sometime in the early part of 1951, a special Brisbane Climbing Club meeting was called and Dr Freddie Whitehouse, a respected lecturer in g...

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More ascents in t he Steamers Two weeks after his first ascent in August 1950 of the Mast in the Steamer formation, Bob Waring returned for...

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The Steamers from the air. The formation is named because of its resemblance to a boat sailing west. From left, the features are the Prow, ...

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First ascents in The Steamers Towards the end of August 1950, Queensland climbers Bob Waring and Jon Stephenson set off to climb the first n...

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The Sydney Rock Climbing Club is born From the early 1950s in Australia, outdoors’ organisations seemed to breed overnight, resulting in an ...

Climbing in the 1950s

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The only type of rope readily available as a climbing aid during the 1950s and early 1960s was Australian sisal but it was unreliable in hol...

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The Brisbane Climbing Club 1950 In April 1950, the Brisbane Climbing Club was started by climbers in the Brisbane Bush Walkers Club (set up ...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

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Federation Peak One of the few remaining unclimbed summits in Australia, Federation Peak in southwest Tasmania , became the focus of postwa...

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Geoff Goadby on the steep, loose east face of Mt Warning in 1949. This was his second ascent of the face with Raoul Mellish and Reg Ballard....

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The Waring ledge Brisbane-based Bob Waring had climbed Mt Barney several times by 1949 and his friend Jon Stephenson mentioned a possible ...

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The end of an era World War II (1939-1945) virtually stopped climbing around the world, apart from specialised mountaineering training giv...

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Between wars Virtually all of the early mass climbing activity in Australia before World War II was in southeast Queensland and northern Ne...

The 1st ascent of the Arethusa Falls

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In 1931, the Blue Mountaineers set out on their biggest challenge—the first ascent of Arethusa Falls in the Grose Valley. The first attempt ...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

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The Warrumbungles Throughout the 1930s, Eric Dark pioneered climbing in the Warrumbungles , a group of spectacular volcanic spires in wester...

The Katoomba Suicide Club

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Sometime in 1929, 40 year old New South Wales doctor Eric Payten Dark began scrambling on the multicoloured sandstone cliffs at Narrow Neck ...
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A record crowd of 15 people climb Crookneck, 3 September 1933 Queensland’s climbing women became big news in the 1930s. The 1934 efforts of ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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The challenge of the Fly Wall New South Wales identity Dr Eric Dark (pictured at the top of the cliff) headed a small group of local climbe...

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Brisbane climber Muriel Patten on the final few metres of the first female (and unroped) ascent of the 1st Sister in the Blue Mountains in ...

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Women's place on the heights Women found themselves at the centre of Australian climbing culture throughout the 1930s with Queensland ho...

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The first Queensland climbing fatality Newspapers in Brisbane and beyond reported the first climbing fatality in Queensland on New Year’s Ev...

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Climbing 'the living rock' In early November 1927, Bert Salmon (pictured), now 28, and Lyle Vidler, 21, set out to climb one of the...
Monday, September 12, 2005

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The 'spiritual father' of Queensland climbing Albert Armitage 'Bert' Salmon was born in Queensland on the numerically-auspi...

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The Clark sisters and companions on the summit of Crookneck, 1912: the first female ascent. The picture is from Thomas Welsby's book, Th...

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The first women on Crookneck On Empire Day, 1912, the first women stood on the summit of Coonowrin or Crookneck (see photo above). Three sis...

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'The birth of modern climbing' Henry ‘Harry’ Mikalsen (pictured left) was born within sight of Coonowrin or Crookneck in the Glassh...
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Archibald Meston in North Queensland Towards the end of the 19th century, quirky Queensland adventurer Archibald Meston led several expedit...

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The West Peak of Mt Barney Harry Winifred Johns was a teacher at Milford School, a few kilometres north of Mt Barney. He was a very active ...
Friday, September 09, 2005

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A fiery ascent in the Glasshouses Brisbane adventurer and writer Thomas Welsby wrote the first detailed description of climbing the southwes...
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Epics on Mt Lindesay Perhaps the most interesting aspect of these early ascents of peaks in the southeast is that there had been a philosoph...

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Assault on Mt Lindesay The Badjalung people had many stories about Mt Lindesay (they called it Jalgumbun) designed primarily to discourage ...

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This dramatic 1876 impression of Mt Warning (1156 metres) reveals the influence of European romanticism on colonial artists. Illustration: T...

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‘Embosomed in mountains of indescribable splendour’: the 1st ascent of Mt Warning Known by the Bandjalang people as Wollombin , Mt Warning’...

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Mt Barney in southeast Queensland with (from left) East Peak (1351 metres), North Peak and West Peak (1359 metres). Picture: Michael Meadows...

1st ascent of the 'highest mountain in Australia'

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The 1820s heralded the beginning of the era of mountaineering in Europe that would see virtually all major Alpine summits climbed within 50 ...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

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

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

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

'The living rock'

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

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

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