In Sept 2010, a BMG/UIAGM guide without consultation, stripped away a long standing safety feature from a notorious mountaineering black-spot near the summit of Ben Nevis at the Tower Gap on the climb, Tower Ridge. He maintained that the safety feature (belay) was an eyesore on the mountain and unnecessary. It turns out, that on the opposite side of the mountain, the same guide, Mike Pescod, has been placing expansion bolts (against the wishes of the vast majority of UK climbers) in order to facilitate taking his clients on canyoning expeditions and no doubt, to facilitate winter ascents of - Five Finger Gully. The bolts if nothing else, are just as unsightly as any other climbing material left behind on a mountain. That for decades, 'official' mountain guides have festooned some of the most beautiful mountains of the world with unsightly; unnecessary fixed-equipment. http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=424956