In This Issue
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 …
Verstepunt Pinnacles
In the Tankwa Karoo and a First Ascent that nearly ended badly. by HILTON DAVIESpic by MIKE SCOTT We shared the same desire. The plum would be the tough and menacing looking line on the south side of the main tower. Having climbed the easier north side of the tower the day before, we knew …
A Balkan Odyssey
by TEODOR ILIEVpic by ANDREW COURT I first met Andy Court and Nic van Doesburgh a few years ago at the battered and ramshackle UCT climbing gym in Cape Town. Stomping ground for broke-ass students. We shared a common interest in the world of terrifying big-wall climbing and weep-with-laughter at each other’s dirty humour. And …
Chemotherapy
Seeking healing in the Blue Mountains of Australia. by DAVE BARNESpic by PHILLIP BOOTH The Blue Mountains West of Sydney had a hell of a summer and had been licked end to end by ferocious forest flames. What was once a deep green wilderness wonderland is now a charcoaled skin, leaving its sandstone walls standing …
June – August 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 73[/su_heading] I know it’s been said a million times already, but I’ll …
Eastern Cape Rock
words by Keith Jamespic by Douw Steyn The first time I really travelled to the dolerite hinterlands of the eastern Cape was with Alwin Wood — we had organised a South African Climbers Club (SACC) national meet at Queenstown’s Hangklip — and the two things that struck me were concerned with the smell of anger …
Rocklands – A boulderer’s paradise at the tip of Africa
words by Duncan Souchonpic by Sandra Studer The Quest for The Pure Line – An interview with Fred Nicole, Scott Milton and Bernd Zangerl Climbers the world over know that Rocklands, tucked away in the mountains of the Western Cape, South Africa, is arguably the world’s most prolific bouldering area. It lies at the northern …