Venues

Deep water bouldering at 6 Pillars in Port Elizabeth. Guide & pictures.
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Abbot’s Buttress is a minor trad area in East London, South Africa.
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Alicedale is the Eastern Cape's largest bouldering area & the 2nd largest recorded bouldering area in South Africa.
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Rock climbing at Assegaai Trail near Grahamstown. Only two sport routes, but plenty of potential for more.
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Bulk River Dam is a minor climbing area about 40km from Port Elizabeth.
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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.
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Bellow Falls is a minor climbing area close to East London. All trad at this stage. 30m water fall.
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Bible Monument is a boulder traverse training spot in Grahamstown.
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Bobbejaanskop is a minor trad area about 30km outside Port Elizabeth.
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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.
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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.
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Burnout is a short trad climbing & bouldering area of Mountain Drive in Grahamstown.
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Seaside bouldering area at Cape St Francis, near Jeffreys Bay.
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Cockscomb is a country trad climbing venue near Port Elizabeth. Think long walk-in, some veg, lots of fungus & loose rock.
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Trad & bouldering climbing area on Mountain Drive, just outside Grahamstown.
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Rock climbing & bouldering guide to Damasqua Ridge, near Port Elizabeth.
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De Bos is a minor sport crag about 50km out of Port Elizabeth. There are 12 sport lines.
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Dungeon is a small urban bouldering cave in Port Elizabeth.
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Eagle Gorge is a wilderness trad climbing area near Port Elizabeth. There are 39 recorded trad routes.
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List of various boulders, buildings, statues & climbing potential in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Small sport crag on the N2 Garden Route. Only 3 sport routes.
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Falcon Rock is a climbing & bouldering about 35km outside of Port Elizabeth. 15 sport lines, 25 trad lines & 90 boulder problems.
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Februarie Kloof is proper unspoiled mountain wilderness. All the climbing is country trad. 20 routes so far. It is quite a long walk-in.
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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.
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Guide to various boulder problems & traverses at Fort Frederick, Port Elizabeth.
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Gamkaskloof is a minor boulder area on the road to De Hel in the Swartberg.
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Indoor bouldering cave in Port Elizabeth.
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Indoor bouldering wall in East London South Africa
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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.
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Groot Rivier is a very accessible sport crag about 15km outside Plett. There are a few trad lines & lots of potential.
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Grootbosrivier & Kleinbosrivier Kloof are both wilderness country trad climbing venues close to Port Elizabeth.
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Grots is a minor bouldering spot about 8km outside of Grahamstown.
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Hangklip is a trad climbing venue near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape.
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Happy Valley is a buildering area on the beach in Port Elizabeth.
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Rock climbing in Hellspoort outside Grahamstown. Overhanging sport routes, trad & bouldering.
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Minor country trad climbing venue near Port St Johns.
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Hogsback is a country trad venue with 249 trad lines & 35 sport lines. On balance dolerite.
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Hole In the Wall is a minor adventure trad crag. The climbing is very short & crumbly. Have to monitor tides & swim to get there.
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Hope Crag is a minor climbing crag on Hopewell Conservation Estate near Port Elizabeth.
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Horseshoe Bend is a small urban trad & sport area in Port Elizabeth.
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Overhanging sport climbing venue 8km outside Grahamstown. 42 sport routes. Very short walk-in & shaded most of the day.
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Ineptocracy is a remote bouldering area in Longmore Forrest. 9 problems opened, may be potential for a few more.
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Inkwenkwezi is a minor climbing area about 30km outside East London.
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Kirkwood is a minor climbing crag outside the town of Kirkwood. Crag is a mix of trad & sport, all short.
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Kleinrivier is a beautiful wilderness kloof with some single pitch country trad routes. Its a beautiful spot.
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Kouga Wildernis is a stunning mountain resort that has 16 sport routes & about 100 trad lines.
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Kudu Kaya, in Baviaanskloof, has some single pitch trad rock routes & great shaded camping. This is a country trad venue.
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Sport, trad & bouldering 35km from Port Elizabeth.
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Lalapanzi is a dolorite country trad venue. There are 22 single pitch trad routes & 1 sport line.
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Linkside Cave is a small urban sport climbing crag in Port Elizabeth.
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Madelaine is a country trad venue. The face vertical dolorite & is about 140m high & 800m wide.
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Masekane is an urban beginners sport climbing area in Port Elizabeth. 20 short sport lines.
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Rock climbing route guide for Meiringspoort. Six single pitch roadside trad routes.
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Momentum is a wild trad climbing area. There a about 122 trad lines & a few scattered sport routes.
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Moodie's is a single pitch country trad climbing area about 8km from Grahamstown. There are more than 100 trad routes.
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Morgan Bay is a trad sea cliff climbing area about 90km from East London. More than 600 single pitch trad lines.
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Naga's Kloof is a wilderness trad gorge, but has 13 scattered sport routes.
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This is a country trad venue at the Willowmore end of Baviaanskloof.
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Nguniland is a country climbing crag with 28 trad lines & 9 sport routes. Close to Kareedow
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Sandstone slab climbing near Steytlerville. Only two trad routes recorded.
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NSA is the main sport crag in East London. More than 60 sport routes.
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Classic limestone sport climbing area near Oudtshoorn. 111 sport lines.
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Palmiet Rivier Kloof is a country trad venue, in a superb unspoiled wilderness. Only 8 trad lines.
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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.
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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.
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Pompie's Pillar is a minor crag in East London, South Africa. 1 sport line.
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Port St Johns is has big faces & lots of climbing potential, but it a bit remote to be a well known climbing area.
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Rhodes University indoor climbing wall has bouldering, sport & top ropes.
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Minor bouldering area at Schoonmarkerskop (Schoonies) off Marine Drive in Port Elizabeth.
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Rock climbing at Sleepy Hollow outside PE. Sport & trad routes.
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Spare Ribs asmall climbing area outside Grahamstown. There are 2 sport routes & 4 trad routes.
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Storms River Mouth is a super spot to visit & there are a few short trad lines. Not great climbing.
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Sport, trad & bouldering in a sunning forest near Stutterheim.
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Roadside rock climbing in Swartberg Pass. Short walk-ins. 68 trad routes on sandstone & quartzite. Single & multi-pitch. Plenty of potential.
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The Island is a beautiful climbing area just outside Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). 12 sport routes & 17 trad lines.
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Thornkloof is a sport area with 23 sport lines about 20km outside of Grahamstown.
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Towerkop is a remote trad climbing area with a long walk-in & and adventurous atmosphere. The oldest recorded rock climbing route is on Towerkop.
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Tygerhoek is a wilderness trad venue. 51 recoreded trad lines & 5 sport routes on sandstone quartzite mix.
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Tyson's is predominately a sport climbing crag. Shaded in summer. 26 sport lines on vertical quartzite. There are also 20 trad routes.
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A few easy boulder problems on boulders close to the road.
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Port Elizabeth's only indoor commercial climbing wall
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Small climbing area in Van der Kemp's Port Elizabeth. Only 5 short trad routes.
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Van Stadens is a sport climbing area 37km from Port Elizabeth. 318 sport routes & about 202 trad lines.
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Country trad climbing guide to routes at Vermarkskloof near De Rust.
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Waterkloof is a hard sport climbing area on the Willowmore side of Baviaanskloof. 21 sport routes.
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Windmill Hole is a moderate grade sport climbing area in East London, South Africa.
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Witteklip is a small bouldering spot 35km from Port Elizabeth.
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Wolwerivier is a sport climbing area close to Sedgfield on the Garden Route.
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Dolorite, country trad crag next to a beautiful river. 3 sport lines.
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