We Move Up

We Move Up is Friends and Allies Woman’s Day event. The event is aimed at equipping the women in the climbing community with necessary technical safety skills. The event hosted in June 2024 in Boven included safety skills training, climbing, yoga, and a communal dinner.

WMU – Boven Weekend

In the frosty month of June we set out too Boven for a weekend of learning epic mountain skills.

We Move Up – Woman’s Day Event

Friends and Allies is back with it’s Woman’s Day event – We Move Up. Here’s everything you need to know about the day. There are a host of exciting activities planned. This is not an event you want to miss – whether your a woman or man.

We Move Up at Delta Park

We Move Up! 2.0

On Sunday afternoon under the trees, next to a beautiful dam, we all came together for another We Move Up gathering!

Women Climbing

We Move Up Recap

We Move Up saw how girls and women from within and outside the FA community come together on a lekker Women’s Day Event.

Women's day event

Women’s Day – We Move Up

Women’s Day At FA Joining Friends and Allies a year ago I realized that the female community of Johannesburg is quite a strong, close and inspiring group of women. It inspired me to climb harder and to get more involved in the community, and I even made a few very close friends out of it.  Sharing beta while climbing, drinking a beer on the balcony and talking about “girl stuff” without caring who listens. This ignited the idea to have an event to celebrate the women of our community, giving us the opportunity to become stronger by inspiring one another. It is also an event for women and girls that are new to climbing and unsure of where they fit in to come and enjoy the day with us, and maybe even make a close friend at the event. We