Hi Guys,

I am writing to you to appeal for your support and possibly even help concerning climbers who are currently evicting young people trying to protect a beutiful woodland in Wales. The climbing community has been very supportive in the past when helping to defend our environment and I hope that climbers will once again unite to protect our beutiful landscape.

The current evictions are taking place in Blackwood, Wales the sight of a once beutiful woodland and home for a diverse range of flora and fauna. What is all this distruction for? All that is planned is an access road. The company involved is Richard Turner Ltd (01246 861738) who have been responsible for many such destructive actions.

We really do need your help to discourage climbers from participating in these actions, without them the evictions couldn't happen. Not only do the actions of these climbers ruin a once beutiful habitat they also ruin the image of climbers.

In the past articles in magazines, banning orders from climbing walls and peer pressure really has been effective in slowing and occasion preventing destruction.

Please do help

Thanks for your help and support

Hi Guys,

I am writing to you to appeal for your support and possibly even help concerning climbers who are currently evicting young people trying to protect a beutiful woodland in Wales. The climbing community has been very supportive in the past when helping to defend our environment and I hope that climbers will once again unite to protect our beutiful landscape.

The current evictions are taking place in Blackwood, Wales the sight of a once beutiful woodland and home for a diverse range of flora and fauna. What is all this distruction for? All that is planned is an access road. The company involved is Richard Turner Ltd (01246 861738) who have been responsible for many such destructive actions.

We really do need your help to discourage climbers from participating in these actions, without them the evictions couldn't happen. Not only do the actions of these climbers ruin a once beutiful habitat they also ruin the image of climbers.

In the past articles in magazines, banning orders from climbing walls and peer pressure really has been effective in slowing and occasion preventing destruction.

Please do help

Thanks for your help and support
Its disgusting that my fellow climbers participate in this

Its disgusting that my fellow climbers participate in this

My little brother is a World Standard climber and I know for a fact that although he's not a tree hugging vegan he'd never go near anything like this with a barge-pole. I'm a city boy at heart, but only because I know that there is a green and pleasant land just waiting for me when I need it. I'd like it to still be there in ten years please ??

Dont these climbers want anywhere left to climb? :(


Loopy, um...'tree hugging vegan?' Why the derision, what harm does hugging trees and not eating meat and dairy do you? :P

The title mentions 'Sheffield climbers'. How do you know that they are from Sheffield?

Dont these climbers want anywhere left to climb? :(


Loopy, um...'tree hugging vegan?' Why the derision, what harm does hugging trees and not eating meat and dairy do you? :P

Sorry mate, his words not mine, I abused him at Sunday dinner the other week because he was in training (all in the name of sibling banter, mind!!) and that was his response :)

Lol. No worries. I'm vegan, although i've never hugged a tree. I dont live on lentils have dreads and wear tie die either.:D

Whilst not a great fan of road building, am I right in the way I read your post to say that climbers who've in the past helped with evictions in this way have been banned from using climbing facilities?

There's nothing like putting a free party on at somewhere like Millstone Edge or Surprise View to witness the true opposing camps in climbing.

Lol. No worries. I'm vegan, although i've never hugged a tree. I dont live on lentils have dreads and wear tie die either.:D

Tie Die *shudder* :)