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New Hopes for Outdoor Recreation State Advisory Body Receives New Mandate Autumb 2019 €3.95 UK£3.40 ISSN 0790 8008 Issue 131 New hopes for outdoor recreation State advisory body receives new mandate Cork county high point Knockboy: a hill steeped in history www.mountaineering.ie The mounins crk. Shoulder your Cerro Torre Breathe in. Buckle up. Zip, clip, adjust. Listen for the horizon Silence beckons you forrd. Brace yourself. This is The Carry Moment™ Breathe out, and go. NEW CEO TOE Move through isolated wilderness carrying everything you need to survive in the Cerro Torre. A serious load carrier for self-sucient trekking and expeditions - the most advanced carry system we have ever built. The Cerro Torre: designed to move your world. lowealpine.com 2 Irish Mountain Log Autumn 2019 A word from the edItor ISSUE 131 The Irish Mountain Log is the membership magazine of Mountaineering Ireland. The organisation promotes the interests of hillwalkers and climbers in Ireland. Mountaineering Ireland Welcome Mountaineering Ireland Ltd is a company limited by guarantee and éad míle fáilte! There is a chill in registered in Dublin, No 199053. the air and the leaves are turning Registered office: Irish Sport HQ, yellow and red and brown, so National Sports Campus, autumn is truly here! Generally, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland. C New restrictions are being Tel: (+353 1) 625 1115 however, it has been a good year so far for Fax: (+353 1) 625 1116 getting out and about, so we must not sought❝ on the numbers [email protected] complain. attempting everest each year www.mountaineering.ie * * * * * * Hot Rock Climbing Wall It can only be hoped that they are, so as Tollymore Mountain Centre After the fourth deadliest season ever on to reduce the number of avoidable deaths Bryansford, Newcastle Everest with eleven deaths, climbers and County Down, BT33 0PT on the mountain each year. guiding companies have called for Tel: (+44 28) 4372 5354 Given the issues it has around changes in the way the government of [email protected] commercial expeditions to Mount Everest, Nepal issues permits to climb the Mountaineering Ireland’s policy is that it Editor: Patrick O’Sullivan mountain. The large numbers climbing the would be better for climbers to attempt a Tel: (+353 1) 837 8166 (pm, wknds) mountain and the inexperience of some [email protected] less popular 8,000m peak – or maybe one climbers, and of some of the trekking Literary Editor: Peter O’Neill of the many unclimbed 6,000m peaks in companies, were blamed for the high [email protected] the region – than to add to the increasing death toll in the latest pre-monsoon numbers attempting Everest each year The Irish Mountain Log is published by season. and contributing to the environmental Mountaineering Ireland four times a A group established to look at the year, in March, June, September, issues there. matter has recommended increasing the December. The material published in However, as the highest summit in the experience required for climbers to be the Log by the voluntary editorial team world, Everest is always going to have an and contributors must not be taken as issued with a permit, and for trekking attraction for mountaineers. official Mountaineering Ireland policy companies to be allowed to guide unless specifically stated. climbers on the mountain. * * * * * * However, reducing visitor numbers Copy deadline for the Winter 2019 I hope that we will all be able to take will have an economic impact on the issue of the Irish Mountain Log is: advantage of the reasonable weather, Friday, November 1st 2019. mountain communities, trekking while it is still with us, to safely enjoy the companies and the government, so it Irish uplands in the coming weeks. Advertising: [email protected] remains to be seen if the recommendations will be implemented. Patrick O’Sullivan, Editor Production: Cóilín MacLochlainn, [email protected] Printing: GPS Colour Graphics Ltd, Alexander Road, Belfast BT6 9HP Tel: +44 (0)28 9070 2020 Write for the Log PARTICIPATION AND RISK Readers of the Irish Mountain Log are reminded that hillwalking and climbing Contributions of features, news items and photographs for are activities with a danger of personal the Irish Mountain Log are always welcome and should be injury or death. Participants in these sent to the Editor at: [email protected]. activities should be aware of and accept these risks, and be responsible for their own actions and involvement. Contributors’ guidelines can be downloaded from the Mountaineering Ireland publishes and Mountaineering Ireland website, www.mountaineering.ie. promotes safety and good practice advice and through the Mountain To join Mountaineering Ireland and receive four issues of the ON THE COVER Training Board of Ireland administers a Irish Mountain Log delivered to your door each year, please hillwalking on Binn Chaonaigh in the range of training programmes for maamturks, Co Galway, with Binn Idir also go to the website, www.mountaineering.ie. walkers and climbers. An dá Log in the background PHOTOGRAPH heLeN LAwLeSS Autumn 2019 Irish Mountain Log 3 CONTENTS Autumn 2019 A tor (rock outcrop) in Coumshingaun in the Comeraghs. See story, page 34 14 Irish project in contention 38 Can Coronation Plantation News for UIAA award be saved? 5 Funding for Women in Sport Patrick O’Sullivan reports By Cóilín MacLochlainn programme renewed 15 ‘Protect Our Winters’ 42 Hanging out on Hekla Ruth Whelan reports campaign grows By Michael Guilfoyle 6 New club membership Graeme Glennon reports 44 North Wollo Highlands trek fees set 16 Women in Sport Co-ordinator By Margaret O’Mahony Murrough McDonagh reports post advertised 48 Bears walk in Ethiopia 7 Hillwalking Development By Murrough McDonagh By Marian Wallis Officer appointed 52 No country for old men 16 Autumn Gathering in the By Jack Bergin Patrick O’Sullivan reports Comeraghs 8 New mandate for Comhairle 16 Club support meetings na Tuaithe Regulars Helen Lawless reports 17 Sir Chris Bonington to 24 Crossword Competition deliver Lynam Lecture 8 Photo posts for Clare trails 56 Training 10 Three Kerry peninsulas hike 18 Nepal Ireland Day celebrated Jane Carney reports completed in style 60 Good Practice Guides (No 5) 11 Tipperary Suir Blueway Patrick O’Sullivan reports By John Harrison officially opened 19 New access rules proposed 62 Books Reviews of recent books 12 Henry’s Cottage: new club for Mount Everest 66 The Last Word hut in the Mournes Gerry Walker By Vicky Ward News Features 13 Path repairs planned for 20 Walking in Lanzarote Croagh Patrick By Liam Roche Helen Lawless reports 22 Nutrition and hydration 13 New advice for visitors Jane Leonard provides some tips to Cuilcagh Mountain 25 The refuge that married a wall Helen Lawless reports By Margaret Tees Climbing 26 Youth Trad Climbing Camps Damien O’Sullivan reports 28 Burren Climbing Meet 2019 Damien O’Sullivan reports 29 Competitions table By Damien O’Sullivan Features Traditional costume at Nepal Ireland Day 30 Quiet mountain Top rope belaying at Suas Climbing Centre, Limerick By Don Baldwin NEPAL IRELAND DAY 34 Jewel of the Comeraghs GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE No5 18 By Margaret Flanagan 60 Photographs: Margaret Flannagan (Coumshingaun), Patrick O’Sullivan (Nepal Ireland Day), John Harrison (top rope belaying) rope John Harrison (top Day), (Nepal Ireland O’Sullivan Patrick (Coumshingaun), Flannagan Margaret Photographs: 4 Irish Mountain Log Autumn 2019 Staff & Board General enquirieS [email protected] Staff Chief executive Officer Newsdesk Murrough McDonagh, [email protected] administration Officer Siobhán Quinn, [email protected] Hillwalking Development Officer Ruth Whelan, [email protected] access & Conservation Officer Helen Lawless, [email protected] training Officer Jane Carney, [email protected] training Office administrator Laura Griffin, [email protected] Climbing Officer Damien O’Sullivan, [email protected] Youth Development Officer for northern ireland Kevin Kilroy, [email protected] Project Coordinator, indoor Climbing/Social inclusion Project Natasza Berlowska, [email protected] Get irelanD WalkinG initiative Programme Manager, Get ireland Walking Participants at Women With Altitude event in Connemara in May 2019 enjoying a day in the hills Jason King, [email protected] MOuntaineerinG irelanD BOarD OffiCerS Funding for Women in Sport President Paul Kellagher programme renewed [email protected] Chairperson Paul Barron Mountaineering Ireland receives €50,000 Women in Sport Funding [email protected] By Ruth Whelan women officiating. BOarD MeMBerS ■ Active Participation Imelda Buckley Mountaineering Ireland was delighted to Significantly reduce the active sport (Chair of Finance, Audit & Risk Committee) be named as one of the National participation gradient between men [email protected] Governing Bodies selected to receive and women. Reduce the drop-out Helen Donoghue support in the latest round of Women in from physical activity and sport in (Chair of Access & Conservation Committee) Sport Funding from Sport Ireland. young girls. Engage with women of a [email protected] This funding will help the existing minority background. Women in Sport programmes within Trish Kane ■ Leadership and Governance [email protected] Mountaineering Ireland to progress, as Progress towards greater gender Colette Mahon well as enabling the introduction of new balance in board membership of [email protected] programmes over the next two
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