by Chris Webber | May 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have written an article about the likely effects of climate change on bushwalkers in the Blue Mountains. So far, nobody is responding to my emails but I hope to get it published some day. I thought the Blue Mountains Conservation Society might publish it, but it...
by Chris Webber | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
There happened to be a post about the disappearance of Belinda Peisley on Facebook yesterday, on the same day that I found an article six years before her disappearance about the death of an old lady in her street, which was very close to the area where Belinda died. ...
by Chris Webber | Mar 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
One of the most awful crimes in my book is the story of Sanjay Mehta, on page 264. Sanjay was an Indian national who lived in Blacktown. On 5 May 2008 he threw the bodies of his wife and nine-year-old daughter off Echo Point, having previously killed them at home. ...
by Chris Webber | Mar 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
On Thursday 10 August 1992, 65-year-old Betty Finlay went for a walk with a Sydney community group below Wentworth Falls. She was an experienced bushwalker but became separated from the group at about 12.30pm at the junction of Vera Falls and Wentworth Pass. The other...
by Chris Webber | Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
I stress that most incidents do not involve people doing anything stupid but there are exceptions. It was raining on 22 February and there aren’t any obvious hand holds on Katoomba Cascades, which would always be somewhat slippery. You can get to the top quite...
by Chris Webber | Feb 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Gazette 3 July 1991 says that Jim Smith reported a total of 114 bushwalkers were rescued in the “recent long weekend” presumably the period 29 June – 1 July 1991. Unfortunately, there are no further details, but there must have been some groups...
by Chris Webber | Feb 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
BM Gazette 31 July 1991: On Saturday 27 July 1991. 56 searchers set off from the Golden Staircase on Narrowneck Plateau to look for a man who had been missing for five days in freezing winter weather. The search for the man began after his mother had received a...
by Chris Webber | Feb 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
The waste of time and effort wasn’t funny but this one made me laugh! Blue Mtns Gazette 17 July 1991: A rescue party, involving the police rescue squad and a SCAT paramedic was called out at about 5.00pm on Wednesday (10 July)1991 . Rescuers were advised to...
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...
