Cape Union Mart offers great discounts this Black Friday
With Black Friday just around the corner, Cape Union Mart encourages everyone to gear up and get outside. With a wide range of Black Friday deals offered in stores nationwide, these one-day deals will leave your adventurous spirit yearning to explore the greater outdoors with your new black gear items. Cape Union Mart’s first ever …
Hi-TEC Trail Ox Chukka
By Tony Lourens I started traipsing up and down mountains and walking to crags looong before the “Approach shoe” was invented. Back then anything went really – from old North Star takkies to proper chunky leather mountain boots, and anything in between. It wasn’t until the last decade or two that “approach shoes” really …
Clinton Martinengo – Two Cracks and a Sword, Mt Randall, Perth
Three rather long climbs at Mt Randall, Perth, including the FA of The Katana. Climber: Clinton Martinengo Climbs: Do First, Think Later. V7, FA. (Flash) There Will Be Blood. V11, 3rd ascent. The Katana. V11, FA.
The Lappnor Project Trailer
A documentary about not giving up. The film follows Nalle Hukkataival on his multi-year journey towards establishing the hardest boulder problem in the world, “Burden of Dreams” (9A). The Lappnor Project Trailer from Blue Kangoo Films on Vimeo.
December 2016 – February 2017
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. FEATURES Climbing in Tierkloof – The Jewel of Gamkaberg by JOHANN LANZ New Routing in Greenland by …
Climbing in Tierkloof – the Jewel of Gamkaberg
By JOHANN LANZ Tierkloof reveals the magic of its somewhat unexpected depths gradually. It is not a grand landscape of soaring heights. Rather it is a small, self-contained world, contentedly remote from all that is outside it. It is an ancient, untroubled and pristine place, where a tiny stream has sliced through upturned layers of …
New Routing in Greenland
By ROB POWELL It was an unmistakable sound. Boom, boom, boom. ‘ROCK!’ Paul shouted. Not that there was much we could do about it – Paul was on abseil so he managed to pendulum over to the left, but David and I were tied to a hanging stance right where the couloir gets narrow. We …
Rim of Africa
By JESS TYRRELL Matric Wild Chill Out 2015 – Mountains as Teachers It’s hard to articulate what actually happened to us in the Cederberg. And even harder for me to put my own personal experiences on paper. Perhaps because there were so many parts of me involved and invested in this journey, and that each …
Magic Mountain
By MATTHEW HOLT Mandy Ramsden and I headed north on the I-5 from San Francisco. Having gone quite big the previous night, I don’t remember much about the journey, but think I was driving. With a population of just over 3000, Mount Shasta City’s name exaggerates its size, though that’s the least of its claims. …
Youth World Championships 7 – 13 NOVEMBER 2016
Are we in the hunt? My son Alistair has been waiting for this moment for several years now and for me the big question was whether we would shape up. Well the answer came even before the comp started at a boulder gym in town. We arrived to find the Austrians boys warming up with …