Come and hear a rundown of the CCA’s recent activities plus general climbing news and points of interest, followed by our guest speaker presentation.

CCA members and non-members are welcome.

Dinner is available from The Limestone Kitchen at the Ainslie Football Club, providing a great chance to relax and socialise with other CCA members before the meeting starts at 7.30pm. A table in the name of CCA is booked for 6pm.

Guest speaker: Peter Cocker

Peter Cocker, mountaineer and storyteller, and founder of K7 Adventures, grew up in England and discovered his passion for rock climbing as a teenager. Every day he’d go climbing on his own in the Lakes District rain or shine, often coming home soaked but happy as only those who have found their purpose in life can be.

Peter is 80-something years old now, and is still the inspiration behind K7 although nowadays he employs others to do the hard work of guiding outdoor adventurists. His contribution to the world of mountaineering is detailed in Chapter 6: Upwardly mobile young men of Will Steffen’s book “Himalayan Dreaming: Australian Mountaineering in the Great Ranges of Asia, 1922-1990” (ANU Press, 2017).

Peter will talk about the early days and evolution of climbing at Booroomba Rocks, where there was a simultaneous, spontaneous influx of granite and crack climbers from the UK who found themselves all in Canberra. He will also talk about the local land jurisdiction.