{"id":39361,"date":"2022-02-10T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=39361"},"modified":"2022-02-10T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T14:13:49","slug":"how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A Sheffield climber has \u2018developed\u2019 multiple new climbing sites in the Peak District.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he&#8217;s not &#8211; he&#8217;s clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39366\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39366\" class=\"wp-image-39366 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/climb-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulder before development.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_39363\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39363\" class=\"wp-image-39363 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/02\/climb-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulder after development.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Montero said: \u201cSometimes developing can be done solo, which I do a lot of. It\u2019s very cathartic for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Essentially what it means is finding boulders, usually overgrown with moss and lichen and cleaning them to make them climbable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDevelopment can also happen in well established crags and can sometimes lead to the exciting discovery of new har<\/span>d boulders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developing a climbing site means making an area interesting and accessible for enthusiast climbers. Safety is also important, as some crags have pits and holes that must be covered. While at times it\u2019s as simple as clearing a path for better access, sometimes it can lead to exciting new discoveries.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development of some smaller boulders can take as little as 10 minutes, some bigger ones could take hours or even days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos Montero added: \u201cThere\u2019s an excitement in the discovery of something new that you can share with people. I enjoy being in wild, beautiful venues like Yarncliffe, sharing space with the local stags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s also nice because all boulders are logged on a website and sometimes, if good enough, they end up in guidebooks, forever immortalising you! \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those exploring new climbing areas must also be conscious about the local flora as some of it is part of nature reserves. Furthermore, some sites are privately owned and arrangements must be made with the British Mountaineering Council before development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carlos said: \u201cEven in areas where it\u2019s ok to develop you should still take care not to remove excess vegetation and only move what is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEnvironmentally I think as long as you follow the \u2018leave no trace\u2019 mantra it\u2019s fine to develop areas.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he&#8217;s not climbing &#8211; he&#8217;s clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,41,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-environment","category-top-story-3"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he&#039;s not climbing - he&#039;s clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he&#039;s not climbing - he&#039;s clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ShefNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74\"},\"headline\":\"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\"},\"wordCount\":371,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Community\",\"Environment\",\"Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\",\"name\":\"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74\"},\"description\":\"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he's not climbing - he's clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"ShefNews\",\"description\":\"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4e57caa0e29909c4b22fcb41fe424a6e97a1d1d949d451ef70122707302d1d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4e57caa0e29909c4b22fcb41fe424a6e97a1d1d949d451ef70122707302d1d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/mystifying-kepler.77-68-26-17.plesk.page\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/jo1admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews","description":"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he's not climbing - he's clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews","og_description":"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he's not climbing - he's clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.","og_url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/","og_site_name":"ShefNews","article_published_time":"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74"},"headline":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene","datePublished":"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/"},"wordCount":371,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Community","Environment","Top Story 3 - Home Page sub 2"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/","name":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene - ShefNews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2022-02-10T14:13:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74"},"description":"Carlos Montero, 30, spends most of his time climbing but when he's not climbing - he's clearing up overgrown or unexplored boulders. So far, through his efforts, he has added a number of safe climbable boulders to Stanage Plantation and Frogatt, as well as to a circuit at Yarncliffe.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/how-one-man-works-to-expand-the-peak-district-climbing-scene\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How one man works to expand the Peak District climbing scene"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/","name":"ShefNews","description":"Bringing you all the news from across Sheffield","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/c5f5bda2a1049c0ed1db6ac302dece74","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4e57caa0e29909c4b22fcb41fe424a6e97a1d1d949d451ef70122707302d1d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4e57caa0e29909c4b22fcb41fe424a6e97a1d1d949d451ef70122707302d1d73?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/mystifying-kepler.77-68-26-17.plesk.page"],"url":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/jo1admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}