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Report back from July Camp and National Meet 2024

2025-05-07T10:53:15+02:00April 21st, 2025|July Camp, National Meets|

July Camp 2024 at Cobham certainly was a very different July Camp and, in many ways, was a very special camp too. In some respects, these differences were pleasantly noteworthy and in other ways, others were very distressing. Cobham had been the initial Camp Site of choice, but this had to be rejected out of [...]

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The Annapurna Ascent: Episode 10: The First South African Summit

2025-04-07T19:04:05+02:00April 7th, 2025|Uncategorized|

Warren Eva has become the first South African to reach the top of Annapurna. He and John Black launched their final push for the summit yesterday – and while John turned back in the early hours of this morning – Warren planted our national flag on the peak just before 05h30 SA time. HOT1027’s Tara [...]

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SA Mountain Conference 2025

2025-03-20T08:25:47+02:00March 20th, 2025|Uncategorized|

KZN Section member, Morgan Griffiths, is currently representing MCSA at the Southern African Mountain Conference 2025, being held at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Maloti-Drakensberg. Over 320 delegates from Southern Africa, Europe and North America have convened to share best practice in alpine research, management and governance. MCSA is a contributing sponsor to SAMC2025, [...]

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Annual Dinner 2024

2025-05-07T10:54:45+02:00July 6th, 2024|Annual Dinner|

The national dinner was hosted by KZN Section at the Underberg Country Club, at the end of the national camp, also hosted by them. The dinner was well attended with many sections well represented. Speeches were given by the national president (Paul Carstensen), national deputy president and KZN section president (Carl Dreyer), and July Camp [...]

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UIAA Rules & Regulations – Major Update

2023-11-14T11:52:13+02:00November 14th, 2023|UIAA|

The UIAA Ice Climbing Governance Group, in conjunction with the UIAA Athletes Commission and some of the UIAA Officials, have been working hard in the off-season on a major update to the UIAA Ice Climbing Rules and Regulations which are now available ahead of the start of the UIAA Ice Climbing 2023/24 season. The full [...]

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Italian Alpine Silver award goes to the MCSA

2023-09-27T08:24:15+02:00September 27th, 2023|UIAA|

The 52nd edition of the Silver Plaque to the Mountain Club of South Africa for its all-round commitment to mountain protection. The 52nd edition awarded the silver plaque to the Alpine Club of South Africa, present in Val Rendena with a delegation and with the president Paul Cartensen, the president of an association that for [...]

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International Mountain Rescue Day

2023-08-28T11:03:56+02:00August 25th, 2023|Uncategorized|

🏔️ **Celebrating the “ICAR - International Mountain Rescue Day” on August 28** 🏔️ Many years ago, specifically on the weekend of August 28 and 29, 1948, mountain rescue experts convened upon the invitation of the Austrian Alpine Club. During this conference at Wilder Kaiser, experiences, knowledge, and technology were exchanged. This pivotal gathering led to the [...]

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Report back from July Camp 2023

2024-04-15T13:47:26+02:00August 15th, 2023|July Camp|

July camp is never ’always just the same’. There were a few ’firsts’ at July Camp 2023 which, overall and by all accounts received, was a great success. This was the first time July Camp was held in the refurbished Monk’s Cowl camp-site. Mark Robertson, the Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife Conservator at Monk’s Cowl, gave an [...]

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