04 Berg stories - The Inner Mweni Pinnacle

04 Berg stories - The Inner Mweni Pinnacle

An attempt to climb the Inner Mweni Pinnacle in the Drakensberg with two friends, one of whom freezes up halfway up the climb...

03 Berg stories - the battle of the meerkat

1967/68 - a Mountain Club myth is born, and makes the papers...

02 The Orange River - “I cant believe we were so stupid”

The story of how Dad and a few mates set out to paddle the Orange River from its source in Lesotho... in homemade canoes.

01 The Sewage Dam

In which Dad, age 9, sets off across the local sewage dam in pursuit of birds eggs. What could possibly go wrong?