The Mountain Club
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In the news:
Ezemvelo has distanced Itself from the recently erected "via ferrata" (metal way) route installed across the face of Beacon Buttress and is threatening a lawsuit against those who apparently erected it in what is a World Heritage Site without permission. For more details see the full response from Ezemvelo. For those unfamiliar with via ferrata (such as your editor) see the article in Wikipedia on the subject. President Dave Jones has written an official response from the Mountain Club of South Africa to the concerns raised about unauthorized via ferrata in the Drakensberg. This appears in the President's Corner. Emergencies:
If in trouble in the mountains use your cell phone emergency number which will link through to Metro Rescue or use this emergency map to get to an MCSA Search & Rescue coordinator. Who we are: The Club consists of 14 Sections, geographically distributed. Links to each of those sections may be found at the bottom of this page. You are strongly advised to contact the section nearest to you to join in activities and to discover any warnings of danger in the area before setting out on your own.
The MCSA was founded in 1891 and is one of only two mountain clubs in Africa which are affiliated to the world mountaineering body, the UIAA. The Mountain Club of South Africa (MCSA) offers mountaineering, which includes climbing of all types and hiking opportunities to its members and is involved in mountain search and rescue, training, conservation of mountain areas, procurement of access for mountaineering. The sidebar gives access to information on all of these activities and also to the calendar listing the national events involving the Club. More details about these events, meetings, meets, and general information about the Club and mountaineering around the world can be found in MCSA E-News also found in the sidebar.
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