Monday, September 19, 2005

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Reptile Climber Mike Woodrow on the first pitch of the steep, spectacular route, Reptile , on the Funnel in The Steamers shortly after the f...

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The 1st ascent of Boonoo Boonoo Falls By 1956, climbing was expanding around Australia with activity in Bungonia Gorge, the Wolgan and Cap...

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A leap of Faith In 1955 in Queensland, Bill Peascod played a key role in influencing a new approach to climbing. Some called it 'a new e...

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Bill Peascod addressing a climbing training session at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane, 1955, with an impressive array of carabiners and pitons....

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The Tigers' rule Bill Peascod emigrated to Australia in 1952 but climbing was far from his mind at the time. From 1938, he had put up nu...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

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Climbing with 'the spiritual father' The following edited account was published in the Italian Alpine Club journal, Lo Scarpone, i...
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Alan Frost, Jon Stephenson, Geoff Goadby and Peter Barnes: 1st ascent of Glennies Pulpit in the Fassifern valley, 1954. The climb was t...

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Jon Stephenson takes in the Hinchinbrook Island panorama en route to the 1st ascent of The Thumb on Mt Bowen, January 1953. Picture: John C...

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Hinchinbrook Is: the 1st ascent of The Thumb, 1953 One of the last sought-after unclimbed summits in Australia in 1952 lay just off the n...

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Victorians make their mark Southwest Tasmania's Federation Peak was again the focus of climbing activity in 1952 when John Young, Joan...

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...