My mum was a sport climber back in the 1960s when it was developing as a sport that non-millionaires did, rather than eccentric Victorian gentlemen scaling the

My mum was a sport climber back in the 1960s when it was developing as a sport that non-millionaires did, rather than eccentric Victorian gentlemen scaling the Eiger with a team of borrowed Gurkhas. Anyway, she was always baffled by the folk who did stuff like sawing the handles off their toothbrushes to save a gram or two in their backpack. "The weight of a couple of raindrops..."