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With all the small camping trips it was a comfortable and spacious tent, true to its word about being waterproof. But then sh*t got real. I took our precious tent to a yoga festival in Underberg, and that turned out to be far more dangerous than any storm.
Adventurer Kath Fourie tests the limits of Salewa's best selling tent at an (extreme) Yoga Festival
Adventurer Kath Fourie tests the limits of Salewa's best selling tent at an (extreme) Yoga Festival

With all the small camping trips it was a comfortable and spacious tent, true to its word about being waterproof. But then sh*t got real. I took our precious tent to a yoga festival in Underberg, and that turned out to be far more dangerous than any storm.

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Adventurer Kath Fourie tests the limits of Salewa's best selling tent at an (extreme) Yoga Festival
Kathryn Fourie

Salewa's Sierra Leone 4-Season Tent Reviewed

November 24, 2024

With all the small camping trips it was a comfortable and spacious tent, true to its word about being waterproof. But then sh*t got real. I took our precious tent to a yoga festival in Underberg, and that turned out to be far more dangerous than any storm.

When hiking shoes meet trail running shoes.
Robyn Johnson

Salewa Ultra Train Trail Runner - The Jack of all Trades

August 20, 2023

Are there different levels of Trail Running Shoes? What about hiking shoes, are there different levels of Hiking shoes? Can there be a crossover and, if so, what would that be?

An insight into the merrits of Hiking & Running poles
Kathryn Fourie

Breathing new life into cranky knees - Distance FL-Z Review

August 20, 2023

When I was 21, I went skiing for the first time in my life in Sweden. It was a showstopper event – and not in a good way. My impressive first day on the slopes ended with me cartwheeling through a spruce tree thicket and tearing my ACL, PCL, MCL – all the Ls really. In my naivety at the time, I remember saying “Well at least I didn’t break a bone…” – years of rehab and a couple of surgeries later I WISH I had only broken a bone!

An interview with SA trad legend, Tinie Versfeld.
Mark Johnston

Are Totem Cams really a cut above the rest?

July 31, 2023

Tinie Versfeld has a reputation as one of the hardest trad climbers in the country. He also has a reputation for being pedantic about what gear to include in his rack! So we were interested to discover that he has added five Totem cams to the mix. Mark Johnston chatted to him to find out why.

Latest Climbing Crag TOPO Updates
Blacklist Sector
Panorama Sector
The handfull of boulders below Tafelberg Road on the Cape Town slopes of Table Mountain offering easy access to after-work bouldering with some very good problems on your doorstep
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Latest Climbing Route TOPO Updates
Cederberg's Most Wanted
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Pink Mamba
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Some Like it Jaffel
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33 Days Later
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Captain Kook and the Starfleet
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Pyramid Scheme
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Emperor's New Groove
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Ozymandias
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Trystan Firman
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Climb & Fly

A new "hybrid" mini wing out for its first public display of usability in the desert climbing hub of Rum where the team of three climbed up walls and flew down to the valley.

December 9, 2021
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Jeff Ayliffe
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Air Zimbabwe

Alois Marume left Zimbabwe in search of a better life, a life with opportunities and meaning. This would be a flight of fancy for Alois.

December 9, 2021
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