SA Mountain 92 | March – May 2025
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 It’s a shit show out there Would you shit in your garden and leave …
Climbing – the Great Motivator
by Alta Lourette Venter Turns out you can achieve what you set your mind to. With diligence, perseverance, determination, focus, discipline and support. My story is not much of a big deal compared to some people in the climbing world. I am no real mountaineer by any means, however this is my story as a …
Psichobloc!
Over the last decade or so, Austrian powerhouse, Jakob Schubert has quickly moved through the ranks to become one of the best and most successful climbers in the world. He has amassed a slew of excellent competition results and has opened and repeated many of the hardest routes on the planet. He has also put …
Classic Tale: Searching for the longest Cape climb
by Tony Dick It is not easy to explain to young climbers why we used to bushwhack to the most remote walls, looking for the longest climbs. Usually what we found was a vast choss-pile of loose rock alternating with overhanging plants. Occasionally I still like to go back to those old routes, just to …
Brit Rock VI comes to South Africa
The wait is over! Brit Rock Film Festival comes to Montagu SA Mountain and Blue Mountain Adventures, along with partners, The North Face, La Sportiva, Black Diamond and Scarpa bring you the exclusive Brit Rock Film Tour: Season Vl Get ready for an unforgettable lineup of the UK’s best climbing and adventure films. This year’s program delivers …
SA Mountain 91 | December 2024 – February 2025
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 Devastating climbing ban – access rears its (very) ugly head again! “The Victorian Government …
A Scottish Tale – Creags, Sgùrrs and Sea Stacks
by Tony Lourens There we were, walking along the boggy path across the Moor Fea from Rackwick Hostel on the small remote island of Hoy, a few hours by ferry north of the Scottish mainland. It was chucking it down, all four of us clad head to toe in Goretex rainsuits, en route to climb …
The Zen of the Wilds
by Roger Diamond Why do you head for the hills? Where do you go? Who do you take along with you? What determines the answers to these and other questions? And perhaps most importantly, what situations leave you feeling most deeply satisfied? I’ve spent a lot of time in the mountains and other wild, natural …
Black Diamond Tradathon 2024 – Cederberg
By Amber de Decker Perched on an uncomfortable stance off-route somewhere above the BP overhang, I gaped at the inventive parking arrangements in the jam-packed Wolfberg parking lot. I would never have believed that half that many cars could fit in there, but this was the 2024 Black Diamond Tradathon, and more than 100 psyched …
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 …