Mountaineering Scotland wants to remove rusted bolts and rotting pegs from the Orkney sea stack.
Decades of rusted bolts, old safety ropes and rotting pegs left by climbers are to be removed from Orkney's Old Man of Hoy.The mountaineering organisation is conducting a consultation for climbers to share their thoughts on the improvements.A post on the Mountaineering Scotland website describes the sea stack off Orkney as a "classic climb".But it adds that it is a "mess of old, rotting gear that has been left behind at each belay and accumulated over decades of use".
"An ascent of the Old Man of Hoy should be a classic adventure, a pilgrimage for UK trad climbers, not a game of abseil roulette following success on the summit." RSPB Scotland, which owns the site, said it supported the proposal to clean up the sea stack by removing ropes and other material. "It should also encourage future climbers to use more predictable routes which would reduce disturbance to the birds, as well as making it safer for climbers."
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