The sun is already burning down but a stiff breeze is hiding the heat. You’re halfway up a 120m high chunk of granite wall. Your left big toe is pushed down onto a little crimpy ridge, while you right is just, kind of, smeared against the wall. Your hands? They’re currently massaging the rock [...]
Limpopo has so much to offer. I think most of us know this, and yet we keep getting surprised by those hidden gems, new playgrounds. A perfect example of this happened last weekend, when we went trad climbing at a place called Mhpogodiba Gorge. Although some of us had been there before, a re-visit [...]
On 24 August, three Gauteng climbers got shown a climbing crag they'd never heard of until their attention was brought to a club meet, planned by the Limpopo section. Our dauntless meet leader, whose father-in-law and his climbing partner pioneered most of the routes, led us down the dry Mphogodima riverbed, about 40 kilometers [...]