{"id":4322,"date":"2024-10-17T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2024-10-17T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:14:04","slug":"top-10-rock-climbing-areas-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/top-10-rock-climbing-areas-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Rock Climbing Areas in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>1. Cederberg<\/h4>\n<p>3 hrs north of Cape Town. High quality sandstone. Multi-pitch routes. Mainly trad climbing.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Swinburne &amp; Eagle Rock<\/h4>\n<p>The best multi-pitch sport climbing in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Magaliesberg<\/h4>\n<p>2 hrs from Johannesburg. Mainly 2-3 pitch trad climbing.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Morgan Bay<\/h4>\n<p>Single pitch trad. Sea cliff climbing on dolorite rock. Just beautiful!<\/p>\n<h4>5. Table Mountain, Cape Town<\/h4>\n<p>Multi-pitch trad climbing.<\/p>\n<h4>6. White Umfolozi River<\/h4>\n<p>Sport &amp; trad climbing in a river gorge on the East coast.<\/p>\n<h4>7. Umgeni Valley<\/h4>\n<p>Perhaps the best sport climbing in the entire country.<\/p>\n<h4>8. Monteseel<\/h4>\n<p>Superb trad climbing with easy access.<\/p>\n<h4>9. Waterval Boven<\/h4>\n<p>100\u2019s of sport routes with easy access.<\/p>\n<h4>10. Paarl Rock<\/h4>\n<p>1 hr from Cape Town. Granite sport climbing<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4260\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4260\" src=\"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Eagle-Rock-Hannelie-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eagle Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Cederberg 3 hrs north of Cape Town. High quality sandstone. Multi-pitch routes. Mainly trad climbing. 2. Swinburne &amp; Eagle Rock The best multi-pitch sport climbing in South Africa. 3. Magaliesberg 2 hrs from Johannesburg. Mainly 2-3 pitch trad climbing. 4. Morgan Bay Single pitch trad. Sea cliff climbing on dolorite rock. Just beautiful! 5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climbing-3","7":"entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peakhigh.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}