Sprayway – Anax soft shell jacket
review by Tony Lourens There are so many camp-style stoves on the market these days, and knowing what to get can sometimes be a little difficult. At the end of the day, you want something that is reliable, stable and light, with an adjustable heat source, puts out a decent amount of power, with relatively …
Alex Honnold + Mark Synnott Make First Ascent In Guyana For Nat Geo
Last year Alex Honnold teamed up with Mark Synnott as part of a scientific mission in Guyana. The pair were trying to bring a renowned biologist up to document a previously unexplored mountain deep in the Amazon. Climber Alex Honnold ascends 1,000 feet of sheer rock to the top of the tepui, a remote “island …
Free Solo Climbing Like You’ve Never Seen It Before w/ Alex Honnold
Virtual reality offers professional climber Alex Honnold a new and innovative way to share his incredible free solo climbing thanks to VR’s immersive authenticity, and you can now experience exactly what it looks like to be with Alex on huge rock walls in the mountains in the documentary film ‘Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR’. Under …
Reel Rock 16
Every year, the REEL ROCK Film Tour brings premieres of the best new climbing films to communities around the world, with 500 locations in 40 countries – and counting. REEL ROCK events feature athlete and filmmaker appearances, prize giveaways, sponsor activation and fundraising for non-profit organizations. Watch the latest epic climbing films at the Reel …
SA Mountain 80 | March – May 2022
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. [su_heading]SA Mountain Editorial – Issue 80[/su_heading] Do we really live in climbing paradise? Last month I got …
Crack Addiction: The best crack climbing in SA – part 1
by Tony Lourens pic by Garrreth Bird A few months ago, Joe Möhle contacted me. “Tony, we should do an article on the best crack climbs in South Africa for SAM. What do you think?” It was a no brainer of course! What a great idea. Which climber wouldn’t like to read and see great …
Climbing in Sicily
words and pic by Massimo Cappuccio Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, a surprising land, rich in history and traditions, where arts and cultures are intertwined. Influenced by various civilizations over time, Sicily has inherited from each of them a piece of artistic mosaic rarely seen elsewhere. Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans and …
The Joys of Kilimanjaro
words and pic by Matthew Holt I fidgeted in a socially distanced plastic chair in the Arrivals Lounge, feeling like I was rolling Monopoly dice approaching the ‘Go-directly-to-jail’ square, with more drastic consequences. Having come to view Kilimanjaro’s fabled snows, Mandy Ramsden and I were undertaking obligatory Rapid Antigen tests on arrival, with failures rather …
Mallory and Irving
First featured in issue 37 (June 2011) of SA Mountain Mallory and Irving were a pair of keen beginner trad climbers based in Johannesburg. They were tired of the usual Magaliesberg kloofs and felt in need of some exploration further afield. The Magaliesberg kloofs are particularly beautiful in an unexpected sort of way because they …
Anna Taylor solos E8 at Danby Crag in UK
British climber, Anna Taylor, has made a free solo ascent of Psykovsky’s Sequins E8 at Danby Crag, England at the age of 23. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anna Taylor (@anna_taylor_98)