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Bouldering in the Indian Himalaya By Flo Scheimpflug Curiosity is like a catapult: If the tension is high enough, it doesn’t take much to cut the rope and send you on a long journey of discovery. For Bernd Zangerl, that ‘not much’ was an old photo with a few rocks on it. However, that was …

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 How safe do you want climbing to be? Most of the climbing world is aware of …

by Garrreth Bird Towerkop is one of the Western Cape’s iconic peaks. Its twin summits stand at a lofty 2,189 metres and is one of the few peaks that can only be trodden upon if you are prepared to climb the 80-metre-high rock walls that stand as a steep rocky bastion, protecting the peak from …

Corey Harris became the youngest person to summit Batian in March 2022,aged 13 By Corey and Johnny Harris It all started in the Dragon’s Teeth . . .I was with a group of friends and family and my climbing mentors and trainers – Jamie Christian from the Mount Kenya Climbing Gym and Julian Wright from …

By Donovan Gould Wrestling the BullOlé! However, this is not Spain. I am putting one foot in front of the other up the steep India-Venster approach path behind the lower cableway station on Table Mountain, to reach the contour path. Tributaries of sweat are running down my face through my soaked yellow North Face truckers …

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 While most people I have mentioned it to can’t believe it, truth be told, I myself …

New back-country adventure route in Montagu by Carolyn Dent Hilton Davies has had a lifetime of passionately seeking out and creating big, hard, bold trad routes in adventurous places. When we met, he confessed he was done with big missions, and looking to do some easier stuff. And I was a relatively new climber with …

by Alexander Huber After accepting an invitation by Italian climber, Gianni Canale, to try and free climb their wild 6-pitch route, Oiscura, on the south face of Punta Giradili. Alexander Huber was drawn to an even more direct and an even more wild line through the monster cave formation.This is his story. Read the full …

Another helping of some of the finest crack climbs in South Africa. Feed your addiction and add some of these to your tick list for your next road trip. Read • Travel • Climb! Read the full article

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 80[/su_heading] Do we really live in climbing paradise? Last month I got …