Sunday, October 11, 2015

Newspapers and rockclimbing in Queensland

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The changing role of Queensland newspapers in imagining leisure and recreation   Possibly the earliest newspaper images of climbing pu...

Crux columns: climbing wars--or Victoria versus the rest!

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--> Climbing wars — or Victoria versus the rest! Far be it for me to fan the flames of interstate rivalry on the rock but ...
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Crux columns: transport trauma

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--> Transport trauma From the very first time that climbers were lured onto the heights the issue of transport to and from ...
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Crux columns: women with attitude

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Women with attitude The largest to climb Crookneck in The Glass House Mountains on 'Salmon's Leap', 1933 (Cliff and Lexie...
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Crux columns: ghosts and The Glass Houses

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Ghosts and The Glass Houses The 300 metre high peak, Crookneck, in the Glass House Mountains north of Brisbane was ...
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Crux columns: the origins of Australian climbing

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The origins of Australian climbing   There’s a lingering perception amongst many Australian climbers, young and old, that rockclimbing ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

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About The living rock  A book based on the material you can view here -- and much more -- will now be available in August 2015. ...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Mist and memory

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A storm during an ascent of east Beerwah.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

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A tiptoe through time Louis Thomas , 10, of Melbourne in action (below) on the classic Arapiles multi-pitch climb, Tiptoe Ridge , in April, ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

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Why climb? The next generation muses... Brian Moes (from the late 1990s) : The great thing is that whether you’re climbing 22 or 31 or 14...

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Attitudes to climbing through the years...

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Michael Groom (from the 1970s) And people say, ‘Well, what are you going to do now with your life?’ But I feel so content with what I’v...

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Scott Camps (from the 1970s) I guess it became more of a personal journey—that’s what I really liked doing. I think it’s very importa...

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Robert Staszewski (1970s to present) The cornerstone of rockclimbing is that the climber must bring himself [sic] to the standard require...

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Ian Thomas (1970s to present) Climbing gives you the time to sit down and minutely examine your immediate surroundings—a ledge, ‘There...

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Dave Gillieson (1970s to 1990s) I think that climbing and caving gave my life purpose and developed strong self-reliance and toleranc...

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Marion Darveniza (nee Speirs) (late 1960s and 1970s) [Climbing gives you] a wonderful sense of achievement and freedom. It certainly tes...

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Greg Sheard (late 1960s to present) I guess climbing’s something that gets into your blood. You always enjoy going back to it. I gave i...