Plas y Brenin May 10-17, 1998
The ninety delegates of the first International Women's Climbers' Symposium, representing twenty six countries are unanimous in their opposition to proposed plans in Yosemite.
The proposals of the National Park Service and the commercial concession (Delaware North) represent a damaging and unnecessary urbanization of one of the world's great wilderness areas.
Yosemite is the world's premier venue for bouldering and big wall climbing, and the techniques developed in Yosemite have been fundamental to the evolution of climbing world-wide.
The 1998 International Women Climbers' Symposium supports the aims of the Friends of Yosemite Valley and the American Alpine Club in their efforts to protect the wilderness environment and maintain free access.
The Symposium calls upon the National Park Service to urgently reconsider the hasty and ill conceived urbanization plans, that could forever change Yosemite from its birthright as a national park to an exclusive commercial resort.
--Many thanks to Eliza Moran for bringing this important item to the agenda of the Symposium.