Every so often we hear of exceptional human feats of endurance, from Shackleton and Messner to more recent mind blowing free solo epic craziness by Alex Honnold and others in the extreme elite.
Report on mechanical bolt failure at Kleinmond by Maarten Turkstra On the 25th of April 2021, I (Maarten Turkstra) was climbing palm oil (Kleinmond) with
A screw link with a prominent superficial crack was found.
Daniel wanted an epic adventure and so I mentioned a climb I had always wanted to do, Spitzkoppe, also known as the Matterhorn of the desert.
I first met Teo at the lower cable way station on the 8th of December 2017.
“Le bombé Bleu” is a very infamous route bolted by Marc Le Menestrel bolted in the 90’s.
John Maytham talks to Andy Davies from Friends of Table Mountain about safety on Table Mountain.
Andre Schoon has transcribed his journals from his various climbing expeditions onto the web to make them accessible to anyone who may be interested.
Matt quietly sneaked away from everyone gathered in the main cave at Howison’s Poort near Grahams Town to free solo a sport route he’d had his eye on for a while.
Slovenian climbers, Janja Garnbret and Domen Škofic, took the climb of their lives and tackled the longest artificial multi-pitch route in the world on the highest chimney in Europe (360m).
Still reminiscing on the lost Waterworld base. We move one route over and take a look at Gosia’s impressive send of Firestarter (29/7c+), back in 2013.
“The bolts on this route are all rusty and totally sketchy. Someone needs to replace them before someone gets hurt.”
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