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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Another way to control population
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Life is cheep in China.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Yea there is a power point slide show on this. Email me and I'll reply with it. Its pretty cool.
OK stupid me, the link has all the photos. But if you want the file I'll still send it. Does anyone know where this is?
Aloha,
wil
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bachar
Trad climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Hua Shan Mountain.
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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nice solo!
lets go....
ks
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fareastclimber
Big Wall climber
Hong Kong & Wales
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It's a shame the majority of the park is closed for climbing (last time I checked at least...), I guess a few climbers placing a handful of bolts over the sacred peaks is much worse than setting gargantuan chains with gigantic bolts and oversized rusting pins and having everybody and his brother all over it. I'm sure there is more to it than that though...
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Cosmin
Big Wall climber
Europe/China
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Huashan is one of the "five sacred mountains" in China. Most of the mountains here - and those five in special- have been inhabited by monks (whether Dao or Budhist). They built their monasteries on the top of these cliffs, they built bridges (mainly rope and wooden ones) connecting these cliffs and they carved statues, living quarters and stairs up these rocky faces.
What you see in these pictures is not modern Chinese access-way but ancient passages, reinforced or replaced so they can be used by tourists. Most of these mounatins are classified as national parks, require an entry fee (quite high for the average Chinese) and despite this they are always packed. Camping is not allowed as climbing is usually not allowed either.
In the case of Huashan there are routes, the French federation (FFME) had a project there ran together with the CMA in mid 90's but now it is stopped. the CMA has its own plans there at the moment which renders the cliffs quite inaccesible to other parties unelss one plans to climb illegally. I forsee this problem being solved in the near future.
Besides the main tourist area which will be anyway, due to large influx of tourist and the hazards such activities would pose, closed to climbing the other areas are quite a bushwack and the cracks need major cleaning. However the potential for sport, trad and big wall lines is huge.
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