Tag Archives: Sport Climbing

Girls are weird

I sit here and scratch the last bit of scab off my elbow; it’s irritating me as it rubs on my Great Auntie Joan’s antique writing desk. It was quite a substantial roastie actually; a nice deep burgundy rose colour and I acquired it when clobbering my elbow climbing ‘Xena’ (19) during the night climbing session at the Roc Rally in Waterval Boven a couple weeks back. Crikey it was eina, but I tried not to moan about it lest I sounded like a…girl? Continue reading

All he needed was like, snow

Today Roger Nattrass and I headed off to Umgeni with snow all over the peaks of the lower midlands. I must say it always feel pretty surreal to live in Africa and have snow just a wee drive away! It boggles my mind, but I like it. Surprisingly it wasn’t that cold at Umgeni, and we had a really good day.

All it took was this… Continue reading