E-newsletter 2023 02
Download Newsletter: MCSA National Newsletter - February 2023 (pdf | 4.67 Mb)
2021 UIAA Annual Report now available
Find the annual report of the UIAA on their website for download (Pdf | 19 Mb): https://theuiaa.org/uiaa/uiaa-releases-2021-annual-report/
The First South African Ascent K2 Ascent
By JOHN BLACK, from MCSA-KZN Newsletter: July 2022 Back in December 2021, we began covering SA’s first attempt to summit K2, following John Black, Warren Eva, Allan Dickinson and Robby Kojetin as they prepared to make this dream reality. Now eight months later, John Black is back on home soil to tell us all about [...]
E-newsletter 2022 10
CONTENTS 1. PRESIDENT’S RAMBLES 2. SOUTH AFRICAN FIRST ASCENT OF K2 3. REVIVAL OF SUPERTRAMP AWARD 4. 2022 NATIONAL MEET - FULLY BOOKED 5. 2022 JOURNAL – CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 6. FACEBOOK AND WEB PAGES 7. ITEMS FOR e-NEWS 1. PRESIDENT’S RAMBLES It has been too long! Hopefully this is an indication that all those [...]
National Meet 2022 – South Cape
The South Cape section last hosted the Annual National camp in 2013 and, this year, it was again our honour to welcome MCSA members from far and wide. Based at Swartvlei Caravan park in Sedgefield, with the sea 200 metres to the South, the vlei running along the Northern perimeter and the Outeniqua mountains framing [...]
Report back from July Camp 2022
By all accounts, July Camp 2022 at Injisuthi was a great success after no July Camps for two years due to Covid. The Injisuthi Camp Site is superbly laid out and well-tended, and the view up the valley to the Escarpment is magnificent! All small contributors to the event running at capacity! The weather was [...]
From Joburg to the world’s second-highest mountain peak, local climbers summit K2 in first for SA
Two South Africans have summited K2 – the second highest peak in the world, making history in the process as the first all-South African team to do so. John Black and Warren Eva completed the climb at 01:50 on Friday. They are part of a four-person team that set out, more than a month ago, [...]
E-newsletter 2022 04
CONTENTS 1. PRESIDENT’S RAMBLES 2. KILIMANJARO CABLE-WAY PROJECT 3. ALPINE SKILLS TRAINING 4. COVID-19 UPDATE 5. UIAA NEWS 6. FACEBOOK AND WEB PAGES 7. NEWSWORTHY ITEMS 1. PRESIDENT’S RAMBLES An important event in the life of the Club is the AGM, this year it seemed even more important as we were able to meet in [...]
MCSA Statement on the war in Ukraine
The Executive Committee of the MCSA issues the following statement to the UIAA and to National Mountaineering Federations concerning events in Ukraine. In keeping with the objectives and values of the MCSA, our members, and community, and in solidarity with the Ukrainian Mountaineering and Climbing Federation and international sporting community, the MCSA will send letters [...]
E-newsletter 2022 02
1. PRESIDENT’S RAMBLES With the New Year comes new hopes, new challenges and new ambitions. I hope you achieve all of yours gloriously! Two exciting challenges which I anticipate with great expectation is the implementation of the MCSA App and an online version of the MCSA Journals. I notice that some of you are rolling [...]