For those interested in Australian climbing history, the sydney rockies have the original John Ewbank 1967 guide to the Blue Mountain up on their site:

http://routes.sydneyrockies.org.au/display/nswrock/Old+Guidebooks

This was the first time the Ewbank grading system (aka the Australian grading system) was used, so the introduction contains the definition of the system. I might copy it into the Tas Climbing Guides at some point. The "Ethics" section is a good read too.

Should go and scan the old Tas guidebooks in the library one day too.

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  1. Dave Barnes

    I have an original that an old timer gave me years ago, it is awesome and has that used feel to it.  Many of the old claasics are written up for the first time and you can see what has stood the test of time.