Venues

Deep water bouldering at 6 Pillars in Port Elizabeth. Guide & pictures.

Abbot’s Buttress is a minor trad area in East London, South Africa.

Alicedale is the Eastern Cape's largest bouldering area & the 2nd largest recorded bouldering area in South Africa.

Rock climbing at Assegaai Trail near Grahamstown. Only two sport routes, but plenty of potential for more.

Bulk River Dam is a minor climbing area about 40km from Port Elizabeth.

Beacon Bay Cave Trail is a minor climbing area in East London, South Africa. The routes are short & it not very worth while. One sport route.

Bellow Falls is a minor climbing area close to East London. All trad at this stage. 30m water fall.

Small easy bouldering area outside PE. Fantastic coffee & breakfast.

Bible Monument is a boulder traverse training spot in Grahamstown.

Bobbejaanskop is a minor trad area about 30km outside Port Elizabeth.

Urban outdoor bouldering area in Grahamstown.

Bridgemeade has a few very low ball boulders. This is a minor urban area that is only recorded for fun! Please don't go there expecting Rocklands.

The Buffalo is a single pitch dolorite country trad area about 35km from East London. There are some multi pitch trad routes & about 10 sport lines.

Remote country trad venue. Only two routes recorded.

Burnout is a short trad climbing & bouldering area of Mountain Drive in Grahamstown.

Seaside bouldering area at Cape St Francis, near Jeffreys Bay.

Cockscomb is a country trad climbing venue about 120km from Port Elizabeth. A fairly long walk-in, some veg, lots of fungus & loose rock.

Country trad adventure near Nieu Bethesda. Vertical dolorite with a fairly long walk-in.

Trad & bouldering climbing area on Mountain Drive, just outside Grahamstown.

Rock climbing & bouldering guide to Damasqua Ridge, near Port Elizabeth.

De Bos is a minor sport crag about 50km out of Port Elizabeth. There are 12 sport lines.

Dungeon is a small urban bouldering cave in Port Elizabeth.

Eagle Gorge is a wilderness trad climbing area near Port Elizabeth. There are 39 recorded trad routes.

List of various boulders, buildings, statues & climbing potential in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Small sport crag on the N2 Garden Route. Only 3 sport routes.

Falcon Rock is a climbing & bouldering about 35km outside of Port Elizabeth. 15 sport lines, 25 trad lines & 90 boulder problems.

Februarie Kloof is proper unspoiled mountain wilderness. All the climbing is country trad. 32 routes so far. It is quite a long walk-in.

Rock climbing at Fort Fordyce is on vertical dolerite. There are 73 sport lines, 10 open sport projects & 67 trad lines. There is plenty of potential for new routes especially trad.

Guide to various boulder problems & traverses at Fort Frederick, Port Elizabeth.

Gamkaskloof is a minor boulder area on the road to De Hel in the Swartberg.

Indoor bouldering cave in Port Elizabeth.

Indoor bouldering wall in East London South Africa

Grips is a huge climbing slab at the start of the Baviaans on the Hankey Patensie side. Mostly trad or mixed routes, but there are 5 sport lines.

Groot Rivier is a very accessible sport crag about 15km outside Plett. There are a few trad lines & lots of potential.

Grootbosrivier & Kleinbosrivier Kloof are both wilderness country trad climbing venues close to Port Elizabeth.

Grots is a minor bouldering spot about 8km outside of Grahamstown.

Hangklip is a trad climbing venue near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape.

Happy Valley is a buildering area on the beach in Port Elizabeth.

Rock climbing in Hellspoort outside Grahamstown. Overhanging sport routes, trad & bouldering.

Minor country trad climbing venue near Port St Johns.

Hogsback is a country trad venue with 249 trad lines & 37 sport lines. On balance dolerite.

Hole In the Wall is a minor adventure trad crag. The climbing is very short & crumbly. Have to monitor tides & swim to get there.

Hope Crag is a minor climbing crag on Hopewell Conservation Estate near Port Elizabeth.

Horseshoe Bend is a small urban trad & sport area in Port Elizabeth.

Overhanging sport climbing venue 8km outside Grahamstown. 42 sport routes. Extremely short walk-in & shaded most of the day.

Ineptocracy is a remote bouldering area in Longmore Forrest. 9 problems opened, may be potential for a few more.

Inkwenkwezi is a minor climbing area about 30km outside East London.

Kirkwood is a minor climbing crag outside the town of Kirkwood. Crag is a mix of trad & sport, all short.

Kleinrivier is a beautiful wilderness kloof with some single pitch country trad routes. Its a beautiful spot.

Kouga Wildernis is a stunning mountain resort that has 16 sport routes & about 100 trad lines.

Kudu Kaya, in Baviaanskloof, has some single pitch trad rock routes & great shaded camping. This is a country trad venue.

Sport, trad & bouldering 35km from Gqeberha (PE)

Lalapanzi is a dolorite country trad venue. There are 22 single pitch trad routes & 1 sport line.

Climbing route descriptions for Langklip Pinnacle in the Langkloof

Linkside Cave is a small urban sport climbing crag in Port Elizabeth.

Madelaine is a country trad venue. The face vertical dolorite & is about 140m high & 800m wide.

Mary is a majestic dolorite trad & sport venue. An Eastern Cape classic.

Masekane is an urban beginners sport climbing area in Port Elizabeth. 20 short sport lines.

Rock climbing route guide for Meiringspoort. Six single pitch roadside trad routes.

Momentum is a wild trad climbing area. There a about 122 trad lines & a few scattered sport routes.

Moodie's is a single pitch country trad climbing area about 8km from Grahamstown. There are more than 100 trad routes.

Morgan Bay is a trad sea cliff climbing area about 90km from East London. More than 600 single pitch trad lines.

Naga's Kloof is a wilderness trad gorge, but has 13 scattered sport routes.

This is a country trad venue at the Willowmore end of Baviaanskloof.

Nguniland is a country climbing crag with 28 trad lines & 9 sport routes. Close to Kareedow

Sandstone slab climbing near Steytlerville. Only two trad routes recorded.

NSA is the main sport crag in East London. More than 60 sport routes.

Classic limestone sport climbing area near Oudtshoorn. 111 sport lines.

Climbing & bouldering area just outside Cape Town.

Palmiet Rivier Kloof is a country trad venue, in a superb unspoiled wilderness. Only 8 trad lines.

Super sweet trad & sport on super quartzite right in the middle of Plett. 14 sports routes & 26 trad routes. Limited walk-in. With a sea view & in a holiday town.

Pinnacle gorge is a fantastic wilderness climbing area about 90km from Uitenhage. There are 470 trad routes & 37 sport lines, with 5 that are still projects.

Pompie's Pillar is a minor crag in East London, South Africa. 1 sport line.

Port St Johns is has big faces & lots of climbing potential, but it a bit remote to be a well known climbing area.

Rhodes University indoor climbing wall has bouldering, sport & top ropes.

Sapkamma Poort is a minor trad climbing spot next to the road.

Minor bouldering area at Schoonmarkerskop (Schoonies) off Marine Drive in Port Elizabeth.

Rock climbing at Sleepy Hollow outside PE. Sport & trad routes.

Spare Ribs asmall climbing area outside Grahamstown. There are 2 sport routes & 4 trad routes.

Storms River Mouth is a super spot to visit & there are a few short trad lines. Not great climbing.

Sport, trad & bouldering in a sunning forest near Stutterheim.

Roadside rock climbing in Swartberg Pass. Short walk-ins. 68 trad routes on sandstone & quartzite. Single & multi-pitch. Plenty of potential.

Country trad climbing area close to Middelberg, Eastern Cape.

The Island is a beautiful climbing area just outside Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). 21 sport routes & 17 trad lines.

Small urban bouldering spot in Grahamstown.

Country trad climbing area near Tarkastad.

Thornkloof is a sport area with 23 sport lines about 20km outside of Grahamstown.

Short sport lines just off the N2.

Towerkop is a remote trad climbing area with a long walk-in & and adventurous atmosphere. The oldest recorded rock climbing route is on Towerkop.

Tygerhoek is a wilderness trad venue. 51 recoreded trad lines & 5 sport routes on sandstone quartzite mix.

Tyson's is predominately a sport climbing crag. Shaded in summer. 26 sport lines on vertical quartzite. There are also 20 trad routes.

A few easy boulder problems on boulders close to the road.

Port Elizabeth's only indoor commercial climbing wall

Small climbing area in Van der Kemp's Port Elizabeth. Only 5 short trad routes.

Van Stadens is a sport climbing area 37km from Port Elizabeth. 318 sport routes & about 202 trad lines.

Country trad climbing guide to routes at Vermarkskloof near De Rust.

Waterkloof is a hard sport climbing area on the Willowmore side of Baviaanskloof. 21 sport routes.

Windmill Hole is a moderate grade sport climbing area in East London, South Africa.

Witteklip is a small bouldering spot 35km from Port Elizabeth.

Wolwerivier is a sport climbing area close to Sedgfield on the Garden Route.

Dolorite, country trad crag next to a beautiful river. 3 sport lines.