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Adam Ondra claims world’s first 9a+ flash at St. Léger
Adam Ondra has made a flash ascent of Super Crackinette at Saint Léger in France. This is the first time a 9a+ has successfully been flashed. This is the first time in climbing history that a 9a+ has been climbed in this style, i.e. first go and knowing something about the climb, and even if …
Rock Master Cape Town 2018
The 8th Rock Master Invitational Climbing Competition is being held on Saturday 10th February at the brand new City Rock in Cape Town. This is one of South Africa’s premiere climbing competitions, where only the top athletes are invited to compete and the field will be kept relatively small to ensure maximum spectator excitement. Performances …
Roof of Africa
The huge route through Table Mountain’s Africa Amphitheatre, has been sent! The route received its first ascent over two days on 28 and 29 January, with an atmospheric night out on a ledge 6 pitches up. Tinie Versfeld, Dave Birkett and Hilton Davies, sent the 10 pitch, 250 metre route by doing 6 pitches on …
Oriane Bertone (12 yrs) in Golden Shadow, 8B+, Rocklands
Oriane Bertone, 12 years old, just sent Golden Shadow (8B+) in Rocklands !
Goodbye Miss Elizabeth Hawley, legendary chronicler of Himalayan expeditions
Miss Elizabeth Hawley has passed away at the age of 95. The American journalist was recognised as a legendary chronicler of mountaineering expeditions to the Himalaya. Keeper of the Mountains Trailer from Allison Otto on Vimeo. Read more… IMAGE: Miss Elizabeth Hawley, one of the most important figures in Himalayan climbing Photo by Asian …
The Nanga Parbat rescue
What was supposed to be a day of celebration and glory for the Polish alpinist Tomek Mackiewicz and the French alpinist Elisabeth Revol has turned into a scary situation: in a January 25 summit bid on Nanga Parbat (8,126 meters), during which they hoped to become the second ever team to climb the mountain in …
Ian Slatem – MEMORIAL SERVICE
The MEMORIAL SERVICE for Ian Slatem is being held at the MCSA (mountain club), 97 Hatfield street on the 10th of January starting at 2pm. We would love you to attend and celebrate Ian’s life with us. We welcome you to share your memories, pictures or stories.
VIDEO: El Capitan The Nose speed record video of Gobright & Reynolds
Part of the ascent carried out by Jim Reynolds and Brad Gobright as they set a new speed record (2:19:44) on The Nose, El Capitan,Yosemite on 21 October 2017. “I f***ing hate The Stovelegs,” Brad panted as he clipped a sling to our anchor and dropped off the far side of Dolt Tower. “So brutal.” …
White Umfolozi Route Guide
The latest White Umfolozi route guide is available free of charge in .pdf format from Gavin Peckham (gavin.peckham@gmail.com). The guide is designed for use on smart phones but you can print it out if you prefer. It has numerous hyper-links that will (hopefully) facilitate navigation around the 170-odd pages. This is a really magic “out …
Calrin Curtis sending the second ascent of “Hey Jupiter” (34/8c)
Calrin Curtis sending the second ascent of “Hey Jupiter” (34/8c), The Underside, Cape Peninsula on 28 October. Video: Kate Patience