From South African International Climbing Meet

Year: 2008

Terry steps up a gear

Friday, 28th March 2008

Modesty has probably kept Terry's second week performance out of his reports thus far...

Canada Winter 2008 – Interlude

Friday, 28th March 2008

Rick told us before we came to Canada that we should bring our rock shoes so he could show us his new 'secret' winter sun crag...

Holdsworth

Friday, 28th March 2008

Friday morning we headed North to Holdsworth, a pretty river valley that is one of the entrances to the Tararua Forest Park...

It would be a Munro if it was

Friday, 28th March 2008

Kapakapanui is the closest big hill (1102m) to Richard's parents house, and there's a loop track to the top, so despite the fact that it's very steep in either direction, we decided it would make a good first walk...

Canada Winter 2008 – Prologue

Thursday, 27th March 2008

We'd never been so late before and were unsure as to what we might find. Val greeted us with dire warnings avalanches and forebodings of death...

Where is Putangirua?

Thursday, 27th March 2008

Our first overnight trip led us over the Rimutaka range to the Wairarapa, farming country on the East side of the North Island...

South African International Climbing Meet

Monday, 24th March 2008

When I saw the opportunity on the BMC site for the South African Mountain Club's international climbing meet it was too great an opportunity to miss...