19/12/2018 7 summits for 7 continents makes sense, but why is there a +1? Why would an additional summit be included if there are only 7 official continents?...

28/7/2016 Yes, yes, yes! It was too quick, way too quick, but that’s the way it turned out (although that was not the plan). Denali is part of my 7summits7fl...

17/11/2011 We summited on 16 September aroun 7am in the morning. It was a long slow walk to the top, but it paid off with most people feeling ok. Unfortunate...

15/11/2011 We are at the last camp at 4700m. We are going to have an early supper at 5:00 pm and then we start for the summit at midnight tonight. We aim to ...

14/11/2011 Today for the first time we feel like we on the big mountain. We did a steep ascent of 300m and in the late afternoon and then went for another cl...

13/11/2011 Another gentle day. Pole pole and jambo. Finally out of the cloud and can see all the vegetation and of course the summit. Pierre been running to ...

11/11/2011 We started the walk yesterday after we dropped off all the goods at the school close to the Rongai Gate and we got super excited as it felt really...

9/11/2011 We’re arrived at Moshi and spent the day looking for possible landing spots. With a lot of last minute changes, we are now 14 climbers, of which 10...

8/11/2011 Finally, after lots of problems and issues, I finally believe that we are on our way. We leave tomorrow and will spend Saturday handing out all the...

12/8/2011 We’re getting ready for Kili in September. It was quite a process to get a permit to fly off Kili, but with the help of Linda Willemse and 10 years...

3/6/2011 The next mountain in season that we can afford is Kili. We’ll join a group of paragliders, 8 in total, in an attempt to raise money and awareness fo...

12/1/2011 We summitted yesterday, 11 Jan! It was a long and painful day. We waited so long for the right day but they winds have not died down since we got h...

3/1/2011 They say that what goes around comes around, and we have discovered this the hard way. After using mules to bring all our heavy gear in to base camp...

1/1/2011 We’re at base camp after 3 days of walking….. With a lot of entertainment from our freestate farming compadres who walked in shorts and strops all t...

27/12/2010 We had a hell of a trip to get to Mendoza. Jhb – – Ctp – BA – Mendoza. It took 24 hours with a lot of waiting in between. When we arrived in Mendo...

30/10/2010 We only got funding to buy tickets a week ago so everything is very last minute. Luckily Pierre and I have done a couple of trips to South America...

26/7/2010 Ok, we’re all back in South Africa! Ready to start the big slog of finding sponsors for the next mountain. Can’t say which one it will be yet, but ...

25/7/2010 We’re back in Joburg. Pierre and I were going to stay on and climb some of the other mountains, but due to some fighting on the Georgian border, we...

19/17/2010 We got up this morning and packed quickly before the weather pulled in. However, we were sopping wet by the time we got down. Nothing like a hot s...

17/7/2010 We left camp at 4am. It was a long and hard slog to the summit. Much harder than any of us thought. I had a pounding headache most of the way up. T...