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My Dad was many things: scientist, teacher, adventurer, inventor, mountaineer, activist, mischief maker... but above all, he was a storyteller.

These are a selection of my favourites, recorded in 2013, just before he died.

They’re a small snippet of a remarkable life, I hope you enjoy them.

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04 Berg stories - The Inner Mweni Pinnacle from 2019-03-31T16:53:10

An attempt to climb the Inner Mweni Pinnacle in the Drakensberg with two friends, one of whom freezes up halfway up the climb...

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03 Berg stories - the battle of the meerkat from 2019-03-31T16:29:28

1967/68 - a Mountain Club myth is born, and makes the papers...

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02 The Orange River - “I cant believe we were so stupid” from 2019-03-31T14:26:27

The story of how Dad and a few mates set out to paddle the Orange River from its source in Lesotho... in homemade canoes.

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01 The Sewage Dam from 2019-03-03T21:05:46

In which Dad, age 9, sets off across the local sewage dam in pursuit of birds eggs. What could possibly go wrong?

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