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Daniel Johnson
South Africa
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2011
Follow me on my adventures around South Africa and beyond!
12 days in Thailand 🇹🇭
In February last year, my sister and I spent 12 days travelling through Thailand, on the start of my four month trip across Asia. It had been a dream of mine for many years to do a trip like this, and the end of my Masters' degree presented the perfect opportunity. Very happily, Amy was keen and able to join this first leg of the trip, and I can't imagine a better place to have started than Thailand!
12 days is hardly enough time to get to know a country, so what we saw was only a very small taste of this ancient, welcoming and stunningly diverse part of the world. We landed in Phuket, where we spent a night and did some exploring, before catching the ferry across to Ao Nang in Krabi. The next few days were spent kayaking in Ao Thalane, climbing endless stairs and chatting to monkeys at the Tiger Cave temple, visiting Hong island, and exploring the jaw-dropping Railay peninsula, along with Anna and Zakhar, some lovely friends we made along the way! From here it was into a minibus to Khao Sok, which looked and felt like something straight out of Avatar. After a night in a sleeper train, we finally made it to Bangkok. I had mixed expectations for the city, whose reputation is sometimes one of seedy nightlife and general chaos, but we found quite the opposite - a vibrant, modern city with beautiful public parks, tons of activity, efficient transport, and some of the most beautiful historical architecture I've seen anywhere in my life. I don't know if I can think of another city that big and yet still so friendly, so diverse and yet so functional, and with quite as unique a spread of things to do and see. Finally, after a highly enjoyable day trip to Ayutthaya, whose temple ruins blew us both away, we said goodbye and left Thailand, Amy heading back to South Africa, and myself onto Vietnam.
Filmed on a GoPro Hero 12 Black and DJI Mavic Pro
Contact me: @daniel_johnson_pmbpk (instagram)
danjohnsonpeter@gmail.com
12 days is hardly enough time to get to know a country, so what we saw was only a very small taste of this ancient, welcoming and stunningly diverse part of the world. We landed in Phuket, where we spent a night and did some exploring, before catching the ferry across to Ao Nang in Krabi. The next few days were spent kayaking in Ao Thalane, climbing endless stairs and chatting to monkeys at the Tiger Cave temple, visiting Hong island, and exploring the jaw-dropping Railay peninsula, along with Anna and Zakhar, some lovely friends we made along the way! From here it was into a minibus to Khao Sok, which looked and felt like something straight out of Avatar. After a night in a sleeper train, we finally made it to Bangkok. I had mixed expectations for the city, whose reputation is sometimes one of seedy nightlife and general chaos, but we found quite the opposite - a vibrant, modern city with beautiful public parks, tons of activity, efficient transport, and some of the most beautiful historical architecture I've seen anywhere in my life. I don't know if I can think of another city that big and yet still so friendly, so diverse and yet so functional, and with quite as unique a spread of things to do and see. Finally, after a highly enjoyable day trip to Ayutthaya, whose temple ruins blew us both away, we said goodbye and left Thailand, Amy heading back to South Africa, and myself onto Vietnam.
Filmed on a GoPro Hero 12 Black and DJI Mavic Pro
Contact me: @daniel_johnson_pmbpk (instagram)
danjohnsonpeter@gmail.com
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The Northern Traverse | A Drakensberg Adventure in 4K
มุมมอง 9205 หลายเดือนก่อน
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 Traver...
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
มุมมอง 6509 หลายเดือนก่อน
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
มุมมอง 6219 หลายเดือนก่อน
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)
มุมมอง 72310 หลายเดือนก่อน
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
มุมมอง 74510 หลายเดือนก่อน
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
มุมมอง 56111 หลายเดือนก่อน
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
มุมมอง 790ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 1.5Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 1.2Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 908ปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 803ปีที่แล้ว
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...
Lost for hours deep inside a mountain...
มุมมอง 791ปีที่แล้ว
No matter your level of preparedness, caving is dangerous and unpredictable, and things like this should never be attempted without a lot of experience and a careful assessment of the risks. Even with all of that, there's always the potential for things to go badly wrong, as we almost learnt the hard way... Music: Thylacine - Satie II Contact me: danjohnsonpeter@gmail.com @daniel_johnson_pmbpk ...
Hiking Groot Krakadouw | A Cederberg Adventure in 4K
มุมมอง 1.3Kปีที่แล้ว
Hiking Groot Krakadouw | A Cederberg Adventure in 4K
Cape Town through my eyes | GoPro Hero 11 Black
มุมมอง 703ปีที่แล้ว
Cape Town through my eyes | GoPro Hero 11 Black
Summiting South Africa's Highest Peaks | A Drakensberg Adventure
มุมมอง 11Kปีที่แล้ว
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
มุมมอง 785ปีที่แล้ว
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
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
มุมมอง 2.6K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Kloof Corner Pinnacle with @DomTomato | Table Mountain's Toughest Hikes
Looks so good and the song choice is a banger as per usual!!!
Much love 🙏
@@daniel_johnson_pmbpk hope you'll keep well soon 🙏❤️
What a beautiful summary of the trip!❤
Such a special time, so glad we made it work!
Looks like a lovely route. Quite a lot of exposure but easy climbing?
@@contactdavidfair pretty much! Easy is of course relative, but yea it's straightforward enough if you've got some scrambling experience. Exposure is not terrible either, but you obviously wouldn't want to fall
Great vid china
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Incredible. Well done
WOWZER
Daniel this is epic! What are the rules around flying drones though? I would love to go and take some of those epic shots myself!
Wow guys! What an amazing video! Well done
Excellent as usual. You are blessed to do these epic things! Well done Dan. Regards. Mr S.
God's country...
Great memories and views guys 🤙..loved every Berg hike I did in the day ..Thanks for sharing.
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 👍