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Daniel Johnson
South Africa
Приєднався 14 січ 2011
Follow me on my adventures around South Africa and beyond!
The Northern Traverse, South Africa
The Drakensberg Mountains define Lesotho's Eastern Border with South Africa, rising close to 3500m in altitude and creating one of the most unique escarpments in the world. The Northern Traverse traces a 5 day route south from Witsieshoek to Cathedral Peak, passing Tugela Falls and the Amphitheatre, Madonna and Her Worshippers and the Mnweni Cutback before offering a descent via the Bell Traverse. In my view, there is no better hike in the country. This one had been on the bucket list for many years, so a massive thanks to Emily, Drake and Sasha for the chance to finally experience it! Truly 5 of the most breathtaking hiking days I've ever spent.
Music: Nadav Cohen - Surround
Tony Anderson - Nocturne in Paris
Yehezkel Raz - Breathe in
Fleet Foxes - Featherweight (Instrumental)
Adrian Berenguer - Skin
Austin Farewell - Take Me Away
Adrian Berenguer - Youth
Contact me: @daniel_johnson_pmbpk (Instagram)
danjohnsonpeter@gmail.com
Music: Nadav Cohen - Surround
Tony Anderson - Nocturne in Paris
Yehezkel Raz - Breathe in
Fleet Foxes - Featherweight (Instrumental)
Adrian Berenguer - Skin
Austin Farewell - Take Me Away
Adrian Berenguer - Youth
Contact me: @daniel_johnson_pmbpk (Instagram)
danjohnsonpeter@gmail.com
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Hiking Sneeuberg | The Roof of the Cederberg in 4K
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Sneeuberg had been on my bucket list ever since my first visit to the Cederberg in 2015 - a sharp summit towering over all other peaks in the range, visible from almost everywhere else I'd hiked in the area. John, Jono, Tess and I finally had the chance to make it happen, and it was every bit as spectacular as we'd hoped! The route starts gently through some uncharacteristically green valleys a...
Chockstone Gully via Els Buttress (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 15 on my mission to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! Chockstone Gully, an obscure D-grade scramble between Ledges and Saddle Face, was unique amongst my Table Mountain routes in the sparsity of information we had going into the route. No-one I could track down had heard of it, let alone attempted it, I couldn't find even one photo online, and our only resource was the short entry in...
Venster Buttress (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 14 on my mission to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! Venster Buttress was a route which always held a special appeal for me. When I first started this challenge, I only had five routes in mind, taken from a list I'd found online. Venster Buttress was the most difficult route on this list, and after deciding that it was above my paygrade, I opted instead to broaden my challenge to ev...
Would you survive Table Mountain's toughest scramble? | Springs via Silverstream Buttress (4K)
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Please don't attempt this without serious climbing and experience and gear! Or better still, not at all... A couple of years ago, I set myself the challenge of completing the toughest hikes and scrambles up Table Mountain. While most people are familiar with just a handful of the most popular trails, the mountain boasts well over a hundred distinct routes, ranging from the staircase that is Pla...
Banhoek (4K) | Summiting Groot Drakenstein
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Duiwelskloof is an adventurer's dream - an impossibly deep gorge thick with prehistoric vegetation, carving out the only feasible ascent of Groot Drakenstein in the Banhoek Conservancy, South Africa. Some of the group had scouted the ascent the previous year, but hadn't made it to the summit, and so when the invite came, I knew I had to be there! Big thanks to Scott, Mike, Emily, Emma, Sasha an...
Saddle Face (via Els Ravine) | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 12 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! The top pitch of Saddle Face is one of Table Mountain's most iconic scrambles, and since I first learnt about it, I knew it would be a must do for this challenge. As the route only starts quite high up the saddle, we chose to combine it with Els Ravine, an absolutely stunning watercourse to the south of Newlands Ravine with some v...
4 Days Canyoning on South Africa's Most Unique Hike
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Last December, Amy, Sam, Sasha, Emily, Miles and I spent 5 days hiking through one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of South Africa, making for easily one of the most unforgettable adventures I've had the privilege of being a part of. Hope you enjoy! Note that this hike was done on private property, and so the name and location can't be shared (please respect this in the comments!) Cover...
Finsteraar Crack (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 11 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! Finsteraar Crack is a beautiful but treacherous gully on the southern side of Fernwood Buttress, offering the only feasible ascent of the buttress, but carrying with it a fair share of danger. Like most of the routes above Newlands Forest, Finsteraar Crack is lush, filled with stunning indigenous trees, mosses and flowers, but wit...
Traverse of the Gods | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 10 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! The Traverse of the Gods is a lesser-known route which climbs diagonally up the Atlantic side of the Kloof Corner ridgeline until eventually topping out at Cairn Ravine. Most of it is vague and overgrown, but its most recognisable feature is its spectacular middle section, which involves a long dassie crawl to negotiate an otherwi...
Window Gorge (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 9 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! Window Gorge is a deep, pristine, and rarely-visited chasm between the Nursery and Fernwood buttresses on Table Mountain. It's most distinctive features are its two massive, moss-covered waterfalls (the biggest on the mountain), but it is also home to an incredible diversity of flora, and a feeling of wilderness that is unmatched a...
Kloof Buttress Arête | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 8 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! Kloof Buttress Arête is a fairly obscure route which gets very little traffic, making its way up the Camps Bay side of the buttress better known for the Kloof Corner Ridge and Pinnacle routes. Last year myself, Tess, Christy, John H and John B, Jono, Sbonelo and Emily set out to find and ascend it, as part of my continued efforts t...
Silverstream Ravine | Table Mountain's Toughest Scrambles
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Route 7 in my efforts to find Table Mountain's toughest ascent! At the time we did it, Silverstream Ravine was the most intimidating route I'd set out to climb - its top section is one of the most infamous and exposed of any of Table Mountain's scrambles, and those I could find who'd completed the route all described it as extremely hairy. However, having accumulated a good deal of experience o...
Hiking Groot Krakadouw | A Cederberg Adventure in 4K
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Of all the Cederberg's iconic peaks, Groot Krakadouw has always held the most mystery and allure for me. A short and moderately steep hike from the west side of the mountain took myself, Tess, Christy and Daniel into an otherworldly maze of deep rock fissures, which eventually open above the most dramatic cliffs in the Cederberg. We found a shallow cave to make our base, watched a jaw-dropping ...
Cape Town through my eyes | GoPro Hero 11 Black
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Cape Town through my eyes | GoPro Hero 11 Black
Summiting South Africa's Highest Peaks | A Drakensberg Adventure
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Summiting South Africa's Highest Peaks | A Drakensberg Adventure
Canoeing through mangrove forests on the Ntafufu River, South Africa
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Canoeing through mangrove forests on the Ntafufu River, South Africa
Kasteels Gulley | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
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Kasteels Gulley | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
Spring Buttress Traverse (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
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Spring Buttress Traverse (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
Hiking the Kouebokkeveld Mountains (4K)
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Hiking the Kouebokkeveld Mountains (4K)
A Winter Wonderland in the Western Cape, South Africa
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A Winter Wonderland in the Western Cape, South Africa
Chasing Snow in the Drakensberg | Sehlabathebe National Park
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Chasing Snow in the Drakensberg | Sehlabathebe National Park
Hole-in-the-Wall | South Africa's Golden Coastline in 4K
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Hole-in-the-Wall | South Africa's Golden Coastline in 4K
Kloof Corner Pinnacle with @DomTomato | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
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Kloof Corner Pinnacle with @DomTomato | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
Ferny Dell (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
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Ferny Dell (4K) | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
Really cool video thanks guys. I love these mountains...good memories...need to get back there. Well done
So epic. Thanks for sharing. Hope to do this route one day.
Love this - great edit!
great video IIII ....
Good video! What did you do for travel arrangements, given that this is a one-way hike?
Amazing!
Love you video of this special place. Thanks!
I'm so excited to go here. What a beautiful video!
Very cool
The scary pitch at 1:44 can be bypassed with a long traverse to the North and back again. We used trad gear at this point.
At 2:30 there is a way around the left of this waterfall as well and then crossing back over.
Beautiful!!!
Dude amazing I’m 10 years old and did Spring step over with Tony Lorurens think you will enjoy it
I hiked this 50 years ago and good to see as unspoilt as it was then and still there for everyone to enjoy. Now live on other side of the world but still look back fondly on the Cederberg.
Beautiful experience. Thanks for sharing. Keen to try it some day.
Wowee great video. Love the Drakensberg!
Your video is fantastic. Good old memories for me. I know the different peaks in the mountain. Perhaps you can tell the viewers more about different peaks valleys, rivers and caves. Little bit info won't hurt anybody! Keep on hiking in the wild places!
Magical scenery! Best place in our beautiful country 🇿🇦
It's got some stunning competition, but still, think I'd have to agree - what a place ❤️
Beautifully captured!
Thnx again for an exceptional video. Do you have the gpx files for the route you've taken?
Alas I don't, but I can absolutely help you figure out the route if you need - feel free to pop me an email!
This is absolutely breathtaking Dan! I am in awe.
Ah thanks Tess! :) Such grand, special places
Add some narration and enter it into a competition….it is a really excellent video 😮❤❤❤
Daniel, I so enjoy every video you make, but this may be my favourite so far! Stunning. I only ever got to spend one day in the Berg (hiking up to Mont-aux-Sources), but this was a great reminder of that day. Thank you!
I really appreciate that, thank you! Probably mine as well 😅. I hope you get the chance to get back there sometime
Longing to back here with you ❤
Absolutely can't wait for our next one, it's been far too long :')
Absolutely stunning.
Thanks Nick!
Thanks, as always, for taking us along. Your videos are stunning. Take care.
Thank you :) I appreciate it!
You never cease to impress Daniel. An absolutely amazing video stunningly edited. ❤
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Loved the video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful video! It's always a delight watching these videos
Thanks Koi! 🤗
Lovely work Daniel! And thank you for the awesome hike :)
Thanks Emily, and for the hike! Thanks for all the work you put into making it happen 🙏 so glad it all worked out
I love it when you get vertigo from a video, love how green it is
Really unique mountains in that sense :) so grand and yet so green
Those are some wicked rocks, now this place is on my list
Do you think you can camp on the saddle of Sneeuberg Peak? Did you see any flat ground? On the topographic map it looks flat but not sure what the terrain is like?
Our school used to take us camping there once a year.Always wary of leopards
Epic!
I am so pleased that I found this channel. Thoroughly enjoying watching all your hikes and climbs. I have done most of these routes many years ago and its really great to relive all these memories. Thanks. I first climbed Sneeuberg in the early 90s in October and it actually started snowing when we were on the summit ridge. Been up there a few times since and last time we found a lovely descent route starting down the Citrusdal side swinging around to the north and then east joining the usual route near the hut.
That's kind of you to say, thank you! These kinds of comments mean a lot me, I really love capturing the feeling of these places for others who appreciate them similarly
Well done guys i did that a few years back... you have nerves of steel 😂
Thank you! Yea it definitely has some hairy moments, absolutely worth it though
beautiful this is on my bucket list
Glad you enjoyed it!
One needs a rope for this hike, not so?
Depends on what you're comfortable with, we found it ok without, but I definitely think most hikers would be a lot more happy with some gear
Great video! Is it possible to do sterkhorn peak summit and back in one day, starting from monks cowl via sphinks breakfast stream? I remember a sign at the t junction after breakfast stream, warning of weather change and to only proceed if you signed the overnight register.
Thank you! I'm afraid I've never done Sterkhorn, though I'm pretty sure what you describe is a tough but doable day, from what I've heard. Afraid I can't answer with any certainty though, and, as with any hike like that, I'd be prepared for things to go wrong just in case you do have to spend the night
@@daniel_johnson_pmbpk thanks, yeah makes sense 👍
How do you guys know all these routes? So you never get stuck. (I have done all the parts of that route other than the exciting Chockstone Gully section)
I mostly work off of Tony Laurens' guide, plus any information I can find online. For this route the Tony Laurens' guide was everything we had to go off
Is the part "in the middle" marked.? I've been up Els Ravine, and also that final ascent off the Ledges-Silverstream Traverse, but in between the only way up that I knew of was the Ledges route itself.
There are actually a couple of different options up! This one is one of the toughest, but we followed it because it's listed as the official middle section of the route of Saddle Face. We found it following Tony Laurens' guidebook
This was by far the hardest scramble I have done this year. My fingertips are still sore from this adventure that we completed on Sunday. We went up until the end of Ledges and then down to the contour path out onto Devils Peak. Super stressful, but amazing scramble. Great stuff guys!
Well done for doing it! Super tough hike, Springs was the toughest of any I did I think
I wish you had made the video dowloadable 😊
Beautifully made! I've been up Finisteraar several times. Used to do it solo, now introducing pals from time to time. The ropes were set up by my friend, the botanist, Ernst van Jaarsveld, and they're still all completely good after more than ten years. You don't cheat... but pulling up these ropes is a fun workout. Would be great to hike with you sometime🏞️
It is so good to see you having such fun. It was such a pleasure to join in with you. Wish I could have been there with you.
Thank you!
Great video man! I'll be going in Feb. Do you happen to have any suggestions for me regarding a guide?
Ah darn, sorry for replying to this too late! Wouldn't have been much help though, unfortunately I don't really know of any guides. Hope you found someone
Nicely done bro! What time of year was this?
Thanks! This was December
I believe that Tugela Falls are now recognised to be higher than Angel falls. Check it out .
I was carried up the chain ladders in 1972 by my parents in a papoose when I was tiny and remember playing in the muddy river on top. Thanks for sharing 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Epic man! The Cederberg is such a beautiful place!
It takes my breath away evertime I visit
Another breathtaking production. I guess this hike was in July to Oct period as its peak summer now
Surprisingly this was actually peak summer! December 2022 - really surprising weather for that time of year