In This Issue
Voyager (8B+), Peak District
by Niccolò Ceria The first repeat of Ben Moon’s classic. More than five years had passed since my first visit to the UK. Then, together with Marco, Gabri and Miki we had the pleasure of taking part in the CWIF, one of the biggest and most well-organised competitions ever. We were nothing but a bunch …
What Goes Around, Comes Around
by Rob Powell South Africans climb the classic Don Quixote on the Marmolada south face, Dolomites. The Dolomites in Italy should be on every climber’s bucket list. The area has something for everyone, from hard single-pitch sport routes to long easy multi-pitch trad climbs, and everything in between. The mountains are littered with interesting historical …
Euro Boulder Trip 2015
By Zoe Duby Zoe Duby takes us on a journey through some of Europe’s finest boulder areas and gives us a few choice tips on dumpster diving. Any academic who has completed their doctorate will attest that writing up a PhD is a slog, so as motivation to power through this epic task, I promised …
December 2015 – February 2016
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 REFLECTIONs on MIRROR WALL A new route on the 1 200-metre Mirror Wall, Greenland’s biggest rock …
Reflections on Mirror Wall
words by JOE MÖHLE pic by MATT PYCROFT Reflections – IV, 27/5.12c, A3+ A new route on the 1 200-metre Mirror Wall, Greenland’s biggest rock wall. It has been some months since my return from Greenland. I am sitting in my comfortable home reflecting on those days in the wilderness. My focus is repeatedly pierced …
An African Dream
words by JEROME MOWAT pic by DAVE PICKFORD A VISITOR’S PERSPECTIVE TO CLIMBING IN SA The very bottom of Africa – an entire continent perched on this inverted triangle of land. How did it not just topple over? My understanding of geography has come on a long way since childhood, but my fascination with the …
Odyssey
words by TONY LOURENS pics by FRANK KRETSCHMANN The first ascent of the most difficult route through the Eiger North Face. – 31/8a+, 33 pitches, 1 400 metres The Eiger, the most notorious north face in the Alps and one of the most revered in the world, has always been a hard man’s playground. From …
Memories of Yellowwood – and the first ascent of ‘Newborn’
words & pics by JEREMY SAMSON I have a mixed relationship with Yellowwood. It is both incredibly friendly yet deceptively cruel. After freeing Armageddon Time Direct with Andre [Verkuil] in 1989, we topped out in the last of the evening light. For some reason we ended up trying to descend the wrong gulley and found …
September – November 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. EDITORIAL – click to enlarge FEATURES The Story of Jabberwocky – Richard Lord Profile by TONY LOURENS …
The story of Jabberwocky & Richard Lord
by TONY LOURENS pic by LORD COLLECTION Looking back we really had such an amazing social scene going on . . . road trips to Monteseel, Montagu, and Blouberg. I think we just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Nicad batteries unlocked the blank canvas. There was a paradigm shift …