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How a Comp Climber Sees the 2025 International Competition Season

2025-11-25T17:35:22+02:00November 25th, 2025|General News|

Whether you climb rocks or train on plastic, you’ll understand the shared South African dream of wanting to climb overseas. This year, another special group of local talent had the privilege of wearing our green and gold abroad. From a Para-World Cup medal in Salt Lake City and new faces in the Open World Cup [...]

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WALKING THE TRA TRA – MCSA member’s entry for the UIAA’s Mountain Protection Award – announced winner of The Best New Initiative award!

2025-11-10T22:07:10+02:00November 10th, 2025|UIAA|

Pieter Holtzhausen is a member of Hottentots Holland Section, has had a close relationship with the Wupperthal community, having raised funds for the rebuilding of the town after a previous disasterous fire that swept through Wupperthal in December 2018, destroying more than 50 homes and much of the historic town centre. Walking the Tra Tra [...]

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National Meet 2026 – Bucklands Guest Farm

2026-02-02T11:36:45+02:00August 18th, 2025||

FULLY BOOKED, but anyone still interested to contact Susan de Villiers, (EP secretary) email: info@epmcsa.org.za who will start a waiting list in case there are cancellations. Celebrating 75 years of the MCSA Eastern Province Section Bucklands is a working farm (sheep, cattle and goats) north of the Baviaanskloof and Grootwinterhoek mountains, at the eastern end [...]

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Young Explorer Award 2025 – Walking Home: A Drakensberg Expedition

2026-01-26T16:00:13+02:00August 15th, 2025|Young Explorer Award|

Many mountain ranges are defined by their summits, hikers driven by the desire to stand on a peak and marvel at the world below. The Drakensberg, however, resists this logic. While it holds several notable summits, its deeper character is revealed in its passes: the demanding routes that rise from the Little Berg to the [...]

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National Meet 2025 – Tygerberg Section, Cederberge

2026-02-02T08:14:03+02:00August 15th, 2025|National Meets|

More than 100 Mountain Club members from across the country made their way to the Cederberg in early October for the 2025 MCSA National Meet, hosted by the Tygerberg Section. Over 10 days, Sanddrif served as the hub for a steady flow of hikers and climbers, with around 80 campers each night. Roughly 50 members [...]

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July Camp and National Meet 2024 – KZN, Cobham Farm

2026-02-02T11:38:37+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|General News|

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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