Fixing Dangerous Bolts: Greg Barnes and the ASCA

All Things Climbing by BLISTER

Mar 7, 201833:13Sports & Recreation

How safe are the bolts we encounter in the wild? Can we really trust them? Who maintains them? And what makes a bolt fail, anyway? Greg Barnes, the Director of the American Safe Climbing Association, answers all our ques...

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