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Collectors of Birds' Nests of Koh Petra Marine Park ~ continued
Western Climbers Help Out
Western rock-climbers
including Trevor Massiah,
Steve Findley, Mike Weitzman
and Don Donavon have
secured anchors inside some
of the caves, so allowing
collectors to shimmy up the
ropes in total safety. The Koh
Lao Liang collectors told this
editor that the most useful
rope put up for their benefit in
2006 was the rope that Steve
and Dan put up on Lao Liang
South. The rope put up by Trev
and Mike was in an impressive
and almost implausibly
impossible place, but not
terribly useful, as the birds had
deserted the cave.
Mike described the process of
putting up the anchor:
“At one point I saw Trev facing
a 20 metre pendulum swing if
he fell. What’s more, the only
thing that would then prevent
him plummeting 30 metres into
the sea was an inadequately
small metal nut jammed into a
crack and then attached to the
rope with a karabiner.
including Trevor Massiah,
Steve Findley, Mike Weitzman
and Don Donavon have
secured anchors inside some
of the caves, so allowing
collectors to shimmy up the
ropes in total safety. The Koh
Lao Liang collectors told this
editor that the most useful
rope put up for their benefit in
2006 was the rope that Steve
and Dan put up on Lao Liang
South. The rope put up by Trev
and Mike was in an impressive
and almost implausibly
impossible place, but not
terribly useful, as the birds had
deserted the cave.
Mike described the process of
putting up the anchor:
“At one point I saw Trev facing
a 20 metre pendulum swing if
he fell. What’s more, the only
thing that would then prevent
him plummeting 30 metres into
the sea was an inadequately
small metal nut jammed into a
crack and then attached to the
rope with a karabiner.
I was more fearful for the life of my leader than I had ever been before, or have been since.
I was possibly about to become an involuntary landing pad for 80kg of hard-as-limestone
Antiguan/Bristolian meat and gristle. Trev was attempting to throw a sling around a thin
spike of rock out of his sight, so that he could then secure the rope to the sling. He was
blindly and desperately searching for the rock-spike while barely clinging on to rock that was
I was possibly about to become an involuntary landing pad for 80kg of hard-as-limestone
Antiguan/Bristolian meat and gristle. Trev was attempting to throw a sling around a thin
spike of rock out of his sight, so that he could then secure the rope to the sling. He was
blindly and desperately searching for the rock-spike while barely clinging on to rock that was
