In This Issue
Grenzenlos – Reflections of Valle Dell’ Orco,The Little Yosemite of Europe
By Bernd Zangerlpic by Jacopo Larcher Finally, Fred and I arrive. We haven’t seen each other for a while, so it’s even nicer to explore a new place with the potential for new bouldering together. Curious and excited, we stare out the windshield of the warm Hyundai bus. Secretly we hope to get an early …
Classic Climb: Clifton’s Crest – Lion’s Head, a jolly good ’15’
By Donovan Gould How does the ‘modern climber’ pay homage to a classic route opened more than six decades ago by visionary mountaineers Professor John ‘Tapeworm’ Grindley and Doctor Bill ‘Capsize King’ Turner? One simply has to climb it. Repeat it and climb it yet again! Situated on the Clifton Sector of Lion’s Head, it …
Friends and Allies – new boulder gym in Jo’burg
By Allister Fenton It’s 5pm on a Tuesday and the regular crowd is here. The only difference is no one is climbing . . . yet. That was two weeks before we opened and we’re amazed at the people who offered to help us build this beauty. Some people stopped by after work for a …
December 2020 – February 2021
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 75[/su_heading] Are you a wimp or are you Polish? Just this past …
Climbing with David
by Tony Dick and Hilton Daviesphoto Patricia Breyer David’s baton is particularly well used and it was never going to be easy for anyone to carry on in his style, especially as only his close friends and family know how busy he’s always been. Listing his climbing exploits is probably numerically impossible, but all of …
Bouldering USA
by Niccolò Ceria Through the autumn and the winter of 2019, I spent 84 days in the USA climbing in three different states around the country: Colorado, Washington and Nevada. Two of these places were new to me, while the last destination was Red Rock Canyon for my third visit. Rock Mountain National Park (RMNP) …
Patagonia – Memories of Fitzroy
words and pic by Hennie Niemand and Colleen Thiel The ‘fasten your seatbelt’ light went off with a ping, and I got up to stretch my legs before settling in for the long haul from O.R. Tambo to Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo. Colleen and I were on our way to El Chalten to …
Vulture Ringing and Near Death – Klein Karoo-Style, 1984
by Keith Jamesphoto André Boshoff In that lilting-tilting three-minute flight over the area between the Gouritz River in the north and the Attakwas Mountains to the north-east, with the Langeberg Mountains stretching to the west, I confirmed with myself, between stomach rumbles and heady anticipation of a cup of tea and whatnot, that this was …
September – October 2020
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 74[/su_heading] We all have to die one day, this much is obvious, …
Mount Sidley, Antarctica
The remotest peak on earth and the quest for the 7-2-7 Challenge by STAFF WRITERpic by ARTHUR MARSDEN Adventure and mountains have been an integral part of the lives of Vaughan and Arthur for as long as they can remember. Both mountaineers have spent the last 25 years travelling to some of the most beautiful …