Correne Coetzer
Correne Erasmus-Coetzer lives in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is an ex-teacher who likes to be outdoors and love to travel to remote places.
Gavin Raubenheimer
Gavin is one of South Africa's most qualified Mountaineering Guides and regularly pushes our products to their limits in the harshest environments.
Kevin Balfour
Like a bottle of good red wine they say that endurance athletes improve with age…
Riaan Manser
A solo-adventurer based in South Africa, Riaan was the first person to circumnavigate the African continent by bicycle - 37,000km through 34 countries in two years and two months. In July 2009 he successfully became the first person to kayak 5000km around Madagascar, alone and unaided.
Robby Kojetin
On the 23rd of May 2009 Robby realized a lifelong dream by climbing his way onto the highest mountain summit in the world and in so doing become only the 17th South African to achieve this incredible feat…
Team Cyanosis
Jo'burg based & arguably SA's No.1 Aventure racing team. Clinton Mackintosh, Nicholas Mulder, Debbie Gerrand, Ryno Griesel & Alex Pope.
Other News
01 September 2010 Take a ride on the Wild side Craig Woods, a veteran and previous winner of the Imana Wild Ride, gives us a taste of this amazing race through the more desolate parts of our beautiful country.
01 September 2010 Howling winds and a full moon Team Cyanosis won the Kinetic Gear Full Moon Adventure Race this month – excellent preparation for the upcoming World Championships.
01 September 2010 Kilimanjaro – you can do it First Ascent put some gear, and a few staff members, to the test on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. The highest peak in Africa is a must for all continental patriots – find out why.
01 September 2010 Walking across South Africa – again! Having already walked from Cape Town to Beit Bridge on an extreme gear testing trip, Ray Chaplin plans to walk the return leg with Stroke survivor, George Scola, to raise funds for the Stroke Survivors Foundation.
02 August 2010 7 Seven 7 Flights conquers Mount Elbrus One down, Six to go. Pierre Carter, Marianne Schwankhart and Peter Friedmann took on Europe’s highest, summated and then floated off the top of the world!
02 August 2010 Afriski – Ski Festival Tigers in Africa? Well after Panjo’s escape in Delmas answered this question in the affirmative, the First Ascent Ski Festival settled that other paradox of African Snow Skiing.
02 August 2010 Freedom Challenge – Ultimate test of endurance The Freedom Challenge is a 2400km non-stop mountain bike expedition across South Africa. With just 26 days to complete this mammoth task, Ugene Nel and Trevor Ball give us some insight into how it is done.
02 August 2010 Moving Sushi finally stops moving! Moving Sushi, the little team of two South African’s, has come a long way since 2008. 42 countries, over 75 000 driven kilometers, 24 plane rides, numerous trains, taxis, rickshaws, motor bikes, car ferry’s, people ferry’s, river beds, sand dunes, snow roads, mud roads and no roads- to be exact.
02 August 2010 Rhodes Run – it’s on his skin, is it on yours? Kevin Light is an interesting guy. His submission to win an entry to the Rhodes Run had us all in stitches a few months back, and with a lizard behind him, he recently completed this event.
