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Safety
Proper Care, Maintenance, and Inspection of Climbing Ropes to Reduce Degradation and Help Determine When to Retire Them: Trevor J. DiMartino and Colin J. Sandwith: Information about how to assess ropes and factors that impact lifespan (869.5 Kb)
 
Aboriginal Cultural heritage
Rock Climbing and Aboriginal Sites: This Aboriginal Heritage office link offers useful guidance for preventing inadvertent harm when climbing. We unequivocally support preservation of Aboriginal art sites, including areas of faded motifs. Improved collaboration...
 
Newsletters
Winter newsletter 2025: OUr winter update on activity (100.5 Kb)
 
Public Land
Climbing in disused quarries (BMC): British Mountaineering Council: The British experience is not dissimilar to Australia's- disused quarries can provide an excellent climbing amenity, often close to urban areas
Improving Camping in NSW national parks: (296.3 Kb)
 
Benefits of climbing
Artificial climbing venues ( Lake Macquarie): A proposal for outdoor non natural climbing venues (2,649.2 Kb)
 
Public Land
Artificial climbing venues ( Lake Macquarie): A proposal for outdoor non natural climbing venues (2,649.2 Kb)
 
Newsletters
2025 summer newsletter: V Wills: A regular update on activity for members (66.0 Kb)
 
Public Land
Arapiles draft plan submission: Read ACANSWs submission to the Dyurrite Cultural Landscape draft Plan (2,683.7 Kb)
 
Ecology
The craft of rock climbing: exploring the implications of relational ontologies for learning to rock climb: Peter Hubbard, Colin Wood1: Society and land managers often perceive adventure activities in natural environments as being based in risk taking and conquest and assume that deviant personality characteristics drive participation in activities like rockc... (946.6 Kb)