Not Much Good Rock In Britain...
It's all very disappointing according to the Independent on Sunday, which is how they account for the emergence of indoor climbing walls... Have these people ever left London fercrissakes?
Posted: 3 November 2005
by Jon
If you read the Independent - and let's face it, no-one reads the
Independent, erm, do they? - you may have noticed a guest appearance
by indoor climbing walls in this Sunday's Travel section.
Writer Dan Hayes has a quick whisk through Europe's plastic rock
and discovers that us Brits rather like converting churches while
Austrians clamber over WW2 gun emplacements in Vienna. If you've been
tricked into a romantic city break in Prague, you'll be relieved to
learn that the Czeck capital is the home of a brand new climbing
centre with 92 routes and some 3,500 handholds - count 'em.
Not much Good Rock In Britain...
More controversial is a sidebar by someone called Mike Higgins who
claims, and we quote: 'The British Isles are a bit of a geological
disappointment for climbers - or to put it another way, there isn't
much good rock here.'
Ahem, maybe in the south east matey, but news to anyone who's
climbed on Peak grit, Dales limestone, in North Wales, stuck doggedly
to Skye gabbro or actually been to the Scottish Highlands...
Shome mishtake shurely...
Read the story on line at travel.independent.co.uk
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Brilliant article in this Sunday's Indpendent where they assert that there's not much good rock in Britain. Fantastic, where do they find these people? Flippin' journalists, erm, national newspaper journalists obviously, ahem...
Posted: 03/11/2005 at 12:36
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