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Wading the big pool in Mhlabatini. Photo CHARLES EDELSTEIN
Julia Wakeling on Vortex (21). Photo CHARLES EDELSTEIN Blouberg. The standard of climbing
and Allister Fenton, James Barnes and Christopher O’Donovan from Jo’burg signed up.
Margaret Milne and Duncan Edelstein. Eventually some 45 individuals, of which 11 were American, were directly
was high with routes up to grade 26
being climbed on trad. Overall, at least
60 people climbed with or within the proximity of the group, and if one includes the tradathon, that was combined with the
Various characters of the trad community clocked in and out as the event proceeded, including Douw Steyn, Kate Larmuth, Tini Versfeld, Ross Suter, Yvette Cloete, Willem Le Roux, Mark Straughan,
involved with climbing trad routes at various venues including Table Mountain, Yellowwood Amphitheatre, Hell re, Magaliesberg (Tonquani, Cederberg, Boulder, and Mhlabatini Kloofs) and
event in Mhlabatini, over 100 people were
exposed to the Americans.
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Climbers on the rst ascent of El Matador (19), Arrow Buttress, Table Mountain. Photo PATsy Lourens