Thirteen Formative Years |
 HOLIDAYS – Drakensberg: Twelve months later – in April 1962 – I helped Dave Dodds and André le Roux lead a climbing trip to the Cathedral Peak region of South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains. The aim of the trip was to take fifteen pupils (including Stuart) from St Stithians College, my old high school (from which I’d matriculated just five months earlier), on a six-day / five-night Drakensberg “taster”. This is a photograph that I took of everyone (other than myself) at our Mhlwazine river basecamp prior to the start of the climb. From left to right those standing are my Stuart, Robert Thomson (partly obscured), David Payne, Peter Jankowitz, Patrick Vickers, Willem (Dutchie) de Maar, and Brian (Pip) Cooper. Seated in the middle from left to right are Geoffrey Read, André le Roux (without a hat), Gordon Martin, and Bill Moir. In the front row from left to right are Roland Glatthaar, Selwyn Miller, Dave Dodds (with the guitar), Jonathan Arthur, Carel Menke, and Tim Ferguson. |