In This Issue
The Green Pillar – Dent-Davies Route (280m, grade 20)
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 …
La Bavarese – Multi-pitch 8b+ in Sardinia, Italy
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 …
Crack Addiction: The best crack climbing in SA – part 2
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
SA Mountain 80 | March – May 2022
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 …
Crack Addiction: The best crack climbing in SA – part 1
by Tony Lourens pic by Garrreth Bird A few months ago, Joe Möhle contacted me. “Tony, we should do an article on the best crack climbs in South Africa for SAM. What do you think?” It was a no brainer of course! What a great idea. Which climber wouldn’t like to read and see great …
Climbing in Sicily
words and pic by Massimo Cappuccio Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, a surprising land, rich in history and traditions, where arts and cultures are intertwined. Influenced by various civilizations over time, Sicily has inherited from each of them a piece of artistic mosaic rarely seen elsewhere. Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans and …
The Joys of Kilimanjaro
words and pic by Matthew Holt I fidgeted in a socially distanced plastic chair in the Arrivals Lounge, feeling like I was rolling Monopoly dice approaching the ‘Go-directly-to-jail’ square, with more drastic consequences. Having come to view Kilimanjaro’s fabled snows, Mandy Ramsden and I were undertaking obligatory Rapid Antigen tests on arrival, with failures rather …
December 2021 – February 2022
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 79[/su_heading] Can you live with the idea of not doing that route? …
The Lost World – Trad Festival 2021
words by Tony Lourens Photo Garrreth Bird The very name ‘Lost World’ conjures up visions of mythical mountain landscapes shrouded in tendrils of clingy mist. A place where fabled figures wander amongst a Tolkienesque setting of twisted and tortured rock walls, adorned with cracks and painted in colours from a Post- Impressionist’s palette. Lost World …
Sylvain Burki Profile
words by Charmaine Kritzinger photo Micky Wiswedel Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to Swiss-French parents, Sylvain embodied the perfect balance between refinement and ruggedness. Hedi and Ernest, Sylvain’s parents, freedom seekers themselves, met 45 years ago, travelled the world by ship, and were offered a place to stay in Bakoven. They ended up raising …