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Ice and Snow Report # 9

By on August 29, 2011
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The ice season is coming to an end as the temperatures rise and the ice is melting fast.

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Ice Report # 9

By on August 5, 2011
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The snow from a week ago is still very thick from north to south in the Drakensberg.

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Ice Report #8 + Pictures

By on July 29, 2011
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As of the last 4 days, much snow has fallen over large parts of South Africa. This should serve to improve and fatten up all the existing ice routes and should make for a longer ice season this year.

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Worlds First Water-Ice 10?

By on February 2, 2010
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Will Gadd and Tim Emmett have established a 30-meter, 45-degree overhanging ice climb behind an unfrozen waterfall in British Columbia. Spray from the 140-meter (460′) Helmcken Falls plasters blobs and daggers of ice to the volcanic rock, creating a unique style of ice route.

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Chasing Vapour Trails

By on July 3, 2009
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Trying to tell someone you climb ice in South Africa is like explaining to foreign soccer supporters why the vuvuzela is necessary at local soccer games. The concept of ice climbing in South Africa is just not something that the average South African mind can comfortably conceive.

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New Ice Climb at Giants Castle

By on July 8, 2006
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For the past six years I have been waiting for the Shisa gully at Giants Castle to come into condition to make an ascent of this previously unclimbed route. Only the final pitch had been climbed in the past and by top-rope only. This left the rest of the gully waiting for a complete ascent.

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Lehlo Ho Nolo – Ice Climbing in Lesotho

By on June 28, 2006
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Greg (Borman) and Mark Millar went to Lesotho last weekend to learn how to ice climb. Unfortunately it was too warm and the icefall we were hoping to climb was still very much a waterfall!

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Ice Climbing, Giants Castle, 4-11 July 2005

By on October 2, 2005
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Anyone can go ice climbing (provided you have some ice). Richard Halsey give a recount of some ice adventures at Giant’s Castle Nature Reserve in the ‘Berg as part of a UCT Mountain and Ski Club trip.

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