Foreword: !ke e:// xarra //ke. PETRO GROBLER
A Mountain Policy for South Africa. PETER BLIGNAUT
Why We Climb, Trek and Backpack: Notions of Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Quest for the Other. CHRIS VAN VUUREN

ABROAD / OORSEE

• Ribbon of Ice: Lhotse. CATHY O'DOWD
• Mezes, Mythos and Mountains of Mediterranean Limestone. Kalymnos 2000, Greece. BRENT JENNINGS
• Op Soek na Yeti's in die Karakoram in Pakistan. WILLEM DAFFUE
• UIAA 1999 Hindu Raj Expedition. ECKART VON DELFT
• Mount Vinson - The Best and Worst of Antarctica's Highest Mountain. ALEX HARRIS
• Aconcagua 2000: a South African Expedition. OLIVER WILLIAMS
• Wadi Rum, Jordan. OTTILIE NESER
• Puncak Jaya, New Guinea. ALEX HARRIS
• Climbing in the Bezingi Region, Caucasus Mountains. HERMAN DORLAND AND DUNCAN SOUCHON
• From Montserrat to the Spanish Pyrenees - 2000 UIAA International Youth Meet. VOYTEK MODRZEWSKI
• The BMC International High-Performance Climbing Meet. ED FEBRUARY
• Bolivia 2000 National Meet. GREG DEVINE

• Trippin' across Borders - Mozambique Big Walls 2000. MARK SEURING
• A Whirlwind Tour of South Africa. GREG CHILD
• Waterval Boven - A Restaurant of Climbing. GUSTAV JANSE VAN RENSBURG
• Lower Amphitheatre, Milner Peak, Hex River Mountains. ROSS SUTER
• Swinburne - A New Climbing Area in the Free State. JOFFREY HYMAN
• Harmony Crag - A New Sport-Climbing Crag near Windhoek, Namibia. ECKHARDT HABER
• Mount Kenya - a South African Women's Expedition. KIRSTY DONALD AND MARY JENNER
• Neighbouring Countries: Climbing their Highest Peaks. MARK WILSON
• A Walk along the Olifants River, Mpumulanga. RICHARD WATMOUGH
• A Hair-raising Experience on the Inner Mweni Pinnacle. ANTHONY VAN TONDER
• Berg. CHRISSIE KRITZINGER
• Kgotswane Abseils Revisited. ANDRIES LATEGAN
• The Climbing of the Column: Drakensberg, 9 December 1945. ESMÉ TAINTON

GENERAL

• The Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains: Conservation Challenges in a Region of International Significance. GREIG STEWART
• On a Precursor Drakensberg-uKkhahlamba Escarpment Trail. THOMAS WIMBER
• Protea Atlassing in the 'Transvaal'. REUBEN HEYDENRYCH
• Bouldering is fun! GUY HOLWILL
• The Mallory Everest Saga: The Facts, the Speculation and the Controversy. STEPHEN MALLORY
• An Archaelogist looks at the South African War in the Magaliesberg. REVIL MASON
• A Tribute to the Beetles of the Mountains. MICHAEL STILLER
• Die Jonkershoek Marathon. TONY GROGAN
• Chasing Dragons in the Drakensberg:Truth in Labelling Peaks in the Underberg District. THOMAS WIMBER
• How Safe are those Bolts? ALAN JARVIS AND JOFFREY HYMAN
• Some July Camp Sketches. SHANNON CHRISTIAN
• The Naming of Rock Shelters in the Eastern Cape Fold Belt. TERTIUS COETZEE
• Two Black Eagle Siblings survive in the Magaliesberg! BORIS VAN DER RIET

• KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg
  • Project 29: A new route on the Greater Injesuthi Buttress. PAUL FATTI
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A First Ascent of the East Ridge of the Eastern Injesuthi Triplet. ROLAND MAGG AND IAN SLATEM
  • The Carbineers: Passes, Peaks and a New Route. GAVIN PECKHAM
• Cederberg:
  • Tafelberg: Some Variations and New Routes. ROSS SUTER
  • Middle Krakadouw Peak. ROSS SUTER
  • Main Amphitheatre, Great Krakadouw Peak: Some new routes. ROSS SUTER

• Murray Boyes
• Duncan Eliott
• Bob Hinings
• Thomas Leach
• Les Schaff
• Theo Scheffler

• Objectives/Doelstellings
• Central Committee/Sentrale Komitee 2000
• Section Officers/Ampsdraers van Afdelings 2000
• Annual Reports /Jaarverslae 2000

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