The nuts museum!

Hi folks!

In order to distract myself a bit from the final year report which I have to submit soon, I was surfing around in the entertaining internet, looking for new climbing stuff. Thereby I came across an actually nice website: www.needlesports.com/nutsmuseum/nutsmuseum.htm

A museum about nuts, cams and a lot more about comical and bizarre protection devices in the still young history of rock climbing. It's absolutly awesome! Here you can find all about the history and the evolution of the first nuts. And when I say nuts, then I actually mean SCREW nuts! ;-) .
Also the article about the history of cams is worth a visit. I actually didn't know that there were so many different concepts of 'Adjustable Expanding Protections'. Many of them are looking really adventurously and self-made.
But the museum is interesting not only concerning the technical stuff. You can find as well, some nice story’s about the sometimes crazy characters who developed and tested the new gear. For example the nice story why a cam is sometimes called a "friend". But that, you should read yourself. :-)

Enjoy...