Dispatch from Mt Arapiles

IMAGES BY Alex Lawson and Patrick Munnings

Over the Easter Break, the Tasmanian University Mountaineering Club completed their annual pilgrimage to the climbing paradise of Mt Arapiles, Victoria, to learn the “dark art” of “trad climbing.” According to the Club President Alex Lawson, this event is the closest thing climbers have to a festival, with 250 climbers making the journey from across Australia, and 15 Club members making the trip from Tasmania.

This page: Patrick Munnings on his ascent of the route “Missing Link”

Cassidy taking a step of faith onto the headwall of a climb called “Eskimo Nell”

Three climbers returning to camp after a successful day Fraser Labine and Alex Lawson on the route “Judgement Day”