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So what makes a good climber? 24-Oct-2005 At 1:24:57 PM Blah

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On 24/10/2005 adski wrote:
>The interview was actually in Climb magazine issue 1.
>
>The whole series of 4 mags is worth looking up for the creative approach
>they took with layouts, photography and articles. In my opinion it wouldn't
>be a problem for Rock to break out of their (shrinking) formula and publish
>a magazine with more emotion and less gloss.
>
>Long live grainy photography!

Climb ruled! Pity Rock is so staid. A mag that reflected all of Oz climbing, now there's a challenge for Rock. I get the impression that Rock only survives on the back of Wild... Every new issue is a case of ' ohh, new mag new mag.. followed two minutes later by hmm... same as the last one, I've already got this at home' and returned to the newsagent shelf. British OTE was great, a good model to look at. Far more interesting and I don't even live there... and the thing was re-readable too, even better. Articles worth filing away for future reference in Rock are few and far between...