In This Issue

words & pic by TONY LOURENS It had been nearly 30 years since I stood at the foot of Bugger Gully near the summit of Cathedral Peak. I didn’t really remember it from way back then, but right now it looked steep and ugly. In 1988 I was with my old china Willie Koen, and …

by DOUW STEYN pic by RICHARD HALSEY On the right-hand side of the Africa Bust Up prow is a beautiful, clean, white face dissected by some rails. The widest gap between these rails is split by a tiny tantalising crack offering a glimmer of hope for a way through. Early this year, Gosia [Lipinska] and …

words by BEN MOON pic by STEVE LEWIS/MOON CLIMBING Yesterday I realized the dream I had of climbing Steve McClure’s classic 9a route Rainshadow. The dream began in 2012 while walking in the Yorkshire Dales with my wife. Our route took us under the amazing limestone cove of Malham. It wasn’t a great day for …

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 No Space for New Routes? New Tradding in the Cederberg and Other Stories by DOUW STEYN …

New tradding in the Cederberg and other stories. words and pic by DOUW STEY A long, long time ago, in a place not so far away, a climber once espoused that ‘For something like 20 years now climbers have periodically asserted that Table Mountain was “worked out”, that is, the possibilities of new routes have …

Reflections on a new route through one of Table Mountain’s biggest walls. Words by HILTON DAVIES pic by ROSS SUTER Tinie [Versfeld] made me do the second ascent with him. I don’t know why. But it was great in so many ways. Right from the first pitch, you realise you’re in for a tough day. …

words by JAMES DICKS pic by NIR AVNEYON – AntiGravity Photography There are few feelings as pure as being poised high in the sky, held up only by a gently quivering piece of webbing. I suspect injecting heroin into your eyeball may be on a par. Lose concentration for a single moment though, and you …

words by GOSIA LIPINSKA pic by JOHNNY MILLER I kept expecting to get better, but as each day passed I was still unable to eat normally. I had just recovered from tick bite fever, but my relief from the constant headaches was short-lived as I developed oesophagitis as a result of the strong antibiotics. Every …

Check out the contents for the latest issue of SA Mountain Magazine. Gripping stories to get you pumped and psyched. 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 CHAPPIES Granite Cragging above the Ocean by Hilton …

Granite Cragging Above The Ocean Hout Bay is connected to Noordhoek by the famous and spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive. It is one of the most scenic coastal drives in the world and it is the view from my house across the valley on Little Lion’s Head. In 1996, my brother Dave and I did the …