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SA Mountain 90 | September – November 2024
Read the editorial and check out the contents of the latest issue. With up-to-date news coverage, training articles, gear reviews, celebrity profiles, technical tips covering a wide variety of subjects, event reports, big glossy pics and enthralling articles. Read Online Editorial One of climbing’s great characters I’ve recently finished reading a book on one of …
Faraway Tree
by Sam Nightingale I geared up at the base as Richard ‘Squeaks’ Halsey packed his hernia, holding back his abdominal contents with a folded buff and finger tape. Above us stood 350 metres of rock and the prospect of an unclimbed route through the prominent roof system above. Fernwood Precipice is a huge wall standing …
Classic Tale: North West Direct
by Ed February I was terrified, absolutely mind numbingly terrified. Twenty metres above Andrew [de Klerk] and Tinie [Versfeld], were lying on their backs looking up at me on the fourth pitch of North West Direct on Du Toit’s peak.Thoughts flooded my mind: How the hell did I get myself into this position? What am …
Trad climbing down under
by Dave Barnes Have you ever driven across the Australian Nullarbor? Flat as a pancake, windswept and devoid. The eastern edge of this great south land isn’t these. Australia’s eastern seaboard’s Great Divide snakes the length of the continent and throughout stands proud cliffs sporting hundreds of crags of great character and thousands of routes …