In This Issue
South of 50 – In the footsteps of Shackleton
words and pic by SCARRE CELLIERS Tuesday, 10 November: I came on watch at midnight to the most fantastic night – almost breathless, spectacular starry sky (our fist clear night since leaving the Falklands five days earlier) and a little later there was enough dawn light to produce a silhouette of the island. Classic lenticular …
Die Versorgungslinie – 8C+, Kinnaur – Indian Himalaya
words by BERND ZANGERL pic by RAY DEMSKI It’s common knowledge that a journey begins with the first step. I finally made the first step of my longest ever bouldering journey in Spring 2011. Together with Fred Nicole, I discovered a spectacular bit of rock in the Indian Himalaya, which immediately grabbed my complete attention. …
March–May 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 AFRICA LEDGE Triple Solo. by Matt Bush VOYAGER (8b+), PEAK DISTRICT The first repeat of Ben …
Africa Ledge – Triple Solo
by Matt Bush Matt Bush is one of South Africa’s most talented climbers. His climbing conquests are numerous, with a long list of hard and impressive routes to his name. He is also one of the few climbers on the planet that have entered into the world of extreme free soloing. Matt has free soloed …
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 …