INSPIRED LAND

摘要

Born from fiery volcanic activity more than 13 million years ago, the distinctively rugged. Warrumbungles landscape calls climbers who reVel in the challenge of raw, unpredictable lines. MY TERRIFIED SCREAM ripped through the air. One hundred metres up Crater Bluff, one of the most prominent volcanic features in Warrumbungle National Park, I had been fumbling for a fingerhold on a large overhanging block, not watching what my feet were standing on. A chunk of stone the size of an esky suddenly gave way under me, plummeting towards two rockclimbers below. As my feet swung temporarily into space and I caught myself on the overhanging block, I screamed a frightened warning, "RO-O-O'O-CK", and the boulder rocketed between them, smashing into a zillion pieces at the foot of the mountain, the explosion ricocheting around the valle)'.