Markus Pucher makes first ascent of Marconi Sur West Face in Patagonia
On 16/04/2015 Austrian alpinist Markus Pucher made the first ascent of the West Face of Marconi Sur in Patagonia via his new route Into the Wild. Pucher’s climb is only the second ascent of this mountain, after the first solo via the East Face carried out in 1995 by Antonio Taglialegne. Read more… Source: planetmountain.com …
Twenty-two Year Old Dies in Rappelling Accident on El Cap
On May 27, Tyler, a 22-year-old from Colorado, died in yet another tragic rappelling accident after a 200-foot fall on the Nose of El Capitan. According to Tom Evans of the El Cap Report, who talked to Tyler’s two climbing partners, Cletis and Ryan, after the incident, all three of the climbers were at Camp VI …
RIP Mike Lundy
Mike Lundy, hiking legend and author of Best Walks in the Cape Peninsula, Easy Walks in the Cape Peninsula and Weekend Trails in the Western Cape among others, has passed away. Mike’s wife, Barbara, posted the below online. Beloved husband, father and grandfather, friend to so many and companion to legions of hikers, passed away …
Cape Union Mart Adventure Film Challenge 2015
Cape Union Mart invites local film-makers and outdoorsmen to contribute to the Cape Union Mart Adventure Film Challenge 2015. The purpose of the Cape Union Mart Adventure Film Challenge is to celebrate the athletes, personalities and initiatives that form part of the South African outdoor community. Cape Union Mart invites local film-makers to submit a …
Tommy Caldwell Fights His Way Up Ice-Covered Crack Line
How do you push some of the world’s best climbers to their breaking points? Add ice to an already burly crack climb. The conditions might have seemed perfect as our four climbers arrive at the summit of Chamonix’s Aiguille du Midi, but on the rock, the reality is very different. Melting ice has trickled its …
Potter and Hunt added an extra-difficult wrinkle
Dean Potter and Graham Hunt added an extra-difficult wrinkle, shooting through a narrow, V-shaped notch in a granite outcropping. There was zero margin for error — a standard that, tragically, the two extreme athletes didn’t meet. Potter, 43, and Hunt, 29, were found dead about 50 yards apart below Taft Point, the 7,500-foot-high promontory overlooking …
Alex Honnold talks to CNN about Dean Potter
Dean Potter, who died BASE jumping in Yosemite National Park, gravitated toward what scared him most, rock climber Alex Honnold tells CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Click here to view the video Source: CNN
June – August 2015
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 No Space for New Routes? New Tradding in the Cederberg and Other Stories by DOUW STEYN …
No Space for New Routes?
New tradding in the Cederberg and other stories. words and pic by DOUW STEY A long, long time ago, in a place not so far away, a climber once espoused that ‘For something like 20 years now climbers have periodically asserted that Table Mountain was “worked out”, that is, the possibilities of new routes have …
An African Safari
Reflections on a new route through one of Table Mountain’s biggest walls. Words by HILTON DAVIES pic by ROSS SUTER Tinie [Versfeld] made me do the second ascent with him. I don’t know why. But it was great in so many ways. Right from the first pitch, you realise you’re in for a tough day. …