A Surprise Visit

[amateur51]

Have just googled Harrison's Rocks. Cannot recognise the place. Parking, toilets, notice boards, with it seems, a wide variety of rules & restrictions of all kinds. We were a mere handful in my day & required none of this. As for toilets, in very dry weather we did sometimes maintain a surplus of urine in our bladders. This would be utilised in moistening the more important surfaces of very large boulders, providing grip to the smooth soles of our plimsolls. This was always performed in the most discreet manner. Anyone standing below would be warned. It was just plain commonsense -- What next !!!

What is the world coming to ?

It'll be women mountaineers next gamba

[Don Petter]

It'll be women mountaineers next gamba

... and then they'll want the vote ...

[amateur51]

... and then they'll want the vote ...

That happened only in the 1960s in certain cantons in Switzerland

[Richard Tarleton]

It'll be women mountaineers next gamba

I read in one of the articles about Julie Tullis after her death that she'd mentioned the lack of privacy for bodily functions when climbing at high altitude as the only woman in the party was the one drawback of doing what she loved.

[gamba]

She would have envied the production secretary in a group of people I knew who were filming near the top of a volcano. She went off into the distance, squatted down behind a large rock, only to be enveloped in a massive cloud of steam & a cheer from the rest of the crew.

Now that's enough of your unkind comments about women climbers. I have met several who's prowess I have envied & were not a subject for mirth.