On the morning of Good Friday, I volunteered my services to be a belayer for a patrol of Scouts conducting a rock climbing expedition in the Higgovale Quarry in Oranjezicht. Rock climbing is certainly not my forte, if anything, I suffer from vertigo, so it’s needless to say that I didn’t know much about the world of climbing. Belaying is surprisingly easy to pick up, and as I was required to keep my feet planted firmly on the ground, it appealed to me a lot more than scouring the quarry walls for hand ... read more »
