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.

Monday, January 17, 2022

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A Bad Day at the Office  Summed up by four memorable quotes By David Cook, December 1999 Pilot Peter Ivanoff inches his way up a steep ice s...

Vale Ian McLeod 1931-2020

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Geologist Ian McLeod in Antarctica in 1958. Picture: Graham Knuckey Ian McLeod:  Courage in the frozen wilderness By Malcolm Robertson Chipp...

Jon Stephenson revisited

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  Jon Stephenson revisiting Heard Island in 2002 (photograph: Grahame Budd) Jon Stephenson is a name that resounds throughout the postwar hi...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021

The living rock lives again...

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Copies of The living rock (digital) will be available as a FREE DOWNLOAD from the Apple Bookstore (Apple devices) or Google Drive (Android...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Bill Peascod documentary launched online

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 At Home in The Steep Places The feature-length documentary about artist-climber Bill Peascod, At home in steep places ,  is now available o...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

AT HOME IN THE STEEP PLACES: Documentary on pioneering climber, Bill Peascod, to be launched soon on YouTube

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In 1955, pioneering Lakeland climber Bill Peascod visited Brisbane's Kangaroo Point and conducted an historic training session. It was t...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

The Living Rock hard copies sold out

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Well, it's happened -- the last box of printed copies of The Living Rock has gone out the door and appropriately, to one of my stronges...
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Saturday, June 05, 2021

The living rock hard copies almost gone!

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This is your last chance to have a hard copy of the book as I won’t be having another print run. Almost all of the 1100 copies I had printed...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

A tribute to trailblazing Queensland adventurer

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Geoffrey Bede Goadby 16 January 1925 — 16 October 2020 Geoff Goadby on the first ascent of the east face of Mount Warning, 1949   (Photogra...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

Farewell to a pioneering Australian climbing icon

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  Donn Graeme Groom    19 April 1937 — 23 June 2020   Donn Groom on the second ascent of the North West Face of Federation Peak 196...
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