by Chris Webber | Feb 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Australian Institute of Emergency Services has published a three page article I wrote about the Blue Mountains Community, which is always on the edge not just because it is perched on cliff tops but also because the sound of helicopters makes people nervous. You...
by Chris Webber | Dec 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
When you’re climbing that hill, it sometimes seems like you would like a ride out of the valley. When I last walked the Six Foot Track, I was wearing new boots, and the blisters were so bad the toenail on my left big toe came off, but I didn’t know how...
by Chris Webber | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gazette of 6 March 1991 reports that on Sunday 4 March 1991, two men died while abseiling at Mt York. “The accident is said to have occurred when one man, who was descending, pulled the other man over the edge of the cliff after a supporting tie had become...
by Chris Webber | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Gazette article from 21 November 1990 is headed “Plea to Bushwalkers” and it’s not the only article like it from the summer of 1990-91. In this case, Mr Guy Flower, chief Rescue crew officer with NRMA CareFlight issued a plea for bushwalkers to...
by Chris Webber | Dec 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jack Tolhurst was born in 1939 Katoomba, moved to Megalong Valley where he went to school, then in his teen: moved to Blackheath, where he was still living in 2006. He was interviewed for the oral history project by Diana Bratby in September 1984 and a tape of the...
