20 years ago last January Bob Woods and I climbed a route up the Ben Heatlie amphitheatre in the Hex. We aided most of the route taking many days and bivvies over the affair. Three years ago I went back with Tieni Versfeld and Tony Dick to see if we could free it – a long time dream of mine.
Tags: Ben Heatlie, Dave Birkett

Bruce and I have established a new route on the lower buttresses. It is just to the left of Fraser's Variation on Arrow Buttress. We think that the quality of the route is on a par with Fraser's, Bombay Duck.
Tags: Table Mountain

I was thrashing down the Yellowwood scree with Stewart Middlemiss yesterday in the gloom of descending night fall feeling exhilarated by doing a free ascent of Prime Time Direct
Tags: Prime Time, Yellowwood

One of the incredible privileges of living in Africa is that it is still possible to walk up to a popular crag and open good quality moderate trad routes.
Tags: Wolfberg

I caught up with Clinton on the phone an hour before his flight to India...
Tags: Clinton Martinengo

During the weekend of 5-7 March more than 250 mountaineers, including pupils and teachers from 7 Gauteng and Kwazulu Natal schools, congregated at Swinburne in the Free State for the annual Rory Lowther Memorial Challenge.
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These images are from Raymond Krögers' trip up Grey's Ridge - Waaihoek/Hex

Whether he’s entertaining you by strumming songs on his guitar, describing action packed stories of his holidays or making sounds like a strangled Chihuahua as he climbs, James is a crowd pleaser.
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Iker Pou from Spain is one of the world's most talented rock climbers, with cutting-edge climbs spanning from 9a+ at the crag to 8a at 6000 meters. In this interview he shares his climbing thoughts after his repeat of Demencia Senil 9a+ at Margalef.

So this is my slightly over-exaggerated training schedule, would like to do this every day, but there are inconsistencies day to day... Enjoy
Tags: Training