South Africa

Rocklands, South Africa has been hopping this summer. Hard boulders going down everywhere!

Featuring Cameroni's FA of The Smile (8C/V15), plus Raboutou's and Woods' fourth and fifth ascents of The Finnish Line (8C/V15).

South African climber Matt Bush makes the first ascent of Skywalker (7C/V9), a highball boulder problem in Rocklands, Cederberg, South Africa.

Ines Papert, Luka Lindic and Paul McSorley make a first ascent on  Slanghoek, South Africa's highest big wall

Another new testpiece in South Africa!

Robinson has made the first ascent of Pirate’s Code (8C/V15) in Three Corners

Nalle snags hard boulder FAs down in Rocklands, South Africa.

Springmielies means "popcorn" in Afrikaans, and so is a fitting name for a particular niche discipline and its practitioners on the climbing scene in South Africa.

We're always fantastically impressed by people who boulder grades bigger than their age.

Watch Nalle Hukkataival on the first ascent of The Finnish Line (8C+/V16) in Rocklands, South Africa.