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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Off to the Doctor! A trip to the family doctor always comes with a …

by Donovan Gould Lyrics by Johnny Cash, in collaboration with Dave Mercer, Mike Scott, Warren Gans, Richard Halsey and arranged/produced by Donovan Gould and the Ghost Riders in the Sky! “Hi I’m Johnny Cash!” Trumpets start playing loudly to the tune of Ring of Fire piercing your auditory canal like a riotous Mariachi Band as …