Drakensberg mountains, April 1962 |
 … Dr Dave Dodds, a well-known South African dentist, climber, and photographer. Dave was a family friend. He also had a son who was a young pupil at St Stithians College, and in early 1962 Dave offered to lead an introductory expedition to the Drakensberg mountains for fifteen of the school’s senior students. To help him organise and manage the trip, Dave invited his close friend and climbing partner, André le Roux, and me to join him. At the time, I was working in a temporary job in the proof-reading department of the liberal Johannesburg morning newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail, and I had some leave owing to me, so I jumped at the chance to go along too. |