In This Issue
Crack of Idiots – the story behind the route
words by BILL TUCKER pic by ANDY WOOD You know it’s gonna be exciting when going back to repeat a route you opened 17 years ago. With butterflies in our stomachs, Lizanne and I organised an overnight for our 10-year-old, sorted the gear and packs after a romantic dinner for two, and set our alarms …
Pirate of the Caribbean
by MATTHEW HOLT Great mountaineers have great projects: think Nims Purja and all 14 Himalayan giants in seven months; Ueli Steck and the 82 major peaks in the Alps in one summer; Matt Holt and the three highest mountains in the Caribbean. The Caribbean? I hear you ask. Well, although this sprawling sickle of over …
March – May 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 76[/su_heading] The Loss of a Friend and Climbing Bro here do you …
Fernwood for the People
An extraordinary adventure in the middle of a city. By Hilton Daviespic by Dan Manners With a cord around the little pine tree protruding over the edge, we leaned out over the 350-metre overhanging wall that is Fernwood Face, and started down on our first abseil. Our next abseil was off a prickly Cliffortia ruscifolia …
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) …