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Posted by tokyo bill on July 4, 2007 at 10:35:45 pm EDT
In reply to Beginning climbing posted by Climbing (Guest) on July 4, 2007 at 3:14:33 am EDT

A big problem with the concept "certification for climbing" concept is that it's contradictory to both the history and the basic ethos of the sport. Most climbers respond quite rudely to even the barest suggestion of such regulation, preferring the present system, in which a blend of self-reliance, mutual support and community-based norms to establish what little structure the sport posesses.

I'm way too new a climber (only 10 years or so) to have personal knowledge of it, but apparently the Appalachian Mountain Club did attempt to impose a certification system at one time. It was vigorously rejected (in some cases literally pissed on, if the tales are true) by the freer spirits in the climbing community, personified in the "vulgarians" group that centered around the Gunks in NY.

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