SA climbers pull off superhuman feat so others can second them
Two top athletes have raised more than R100,000 for an Mpumalanga climbing club in a 12-hour competition
27 January 2022 - 20:41
Imagine an Olympic gymnast performing a full routine — on the high bar, vault, parallel bars, pommel horse and floor — not once in 12 hours, but dozens of times. Two top SA climbers, Chris Cosser and Mel Janse van Rensburg, defied gravity last weekend to achieve a feat of similar magnitude by climbing one of SA’s hardest rock routes to raise funds for the Emgwenya Climbing Club in Mpumalanga...
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