A big joyous howdee mate to all of you ,it has been a freaken while ,and is  somehow now becoming a cancerous fashion that my posts are delayed and quite random . Somehow i figure its in my gene make up ,because im quite a mellow ,relaxed ,dont take things to serious kind of person,as i have alluded in my talks  that im a firm proponent that  the greatest gift we’ve been given is just to be the rest is just add ons to excite life on this plain  . This Hiatus has again as you might have figured  gotten me pondering ,and in it i have lit a couple of light bulbs .

first being is that ,from now on i will keep my posts short ,in bulletin form so as to entice ,the only thing that will be in huge and bound will be the mosaic of pics .so in that way i will give more up to date ,on the minute posts and updates .

On that very subject ,in current news as the new Brand Ambassador for Cipla Medpro i have now re structured the Mondetalks and they will hit almost all the nine provinces of South Africa ,inspiring ,and reinoculating a sense of hope and purpose to these kids who have by my observation have lost the capacity to dream and lack relevant role models tour dates will be announced by early January before i leave for my next expedition .

A highlight in my partnership with Cipla Medpro was the talk i gave at Thembelihle school in Joburg ,it re awakened that very burning intent that fuels my expedition that is that greater motive to inspire others to take on their own mountain peaks,and re confirmed my eagerness to partner with Cipla Medpro as they embody that very selfless service to humanity that infalmes ,a propellant to the both of us and is embedded in both our success .

Other exciting news is that i have managed to raise half of the funding for my Everest attempt without bottled oxygen i will also divulge more info in my next post  chat soon .

i live you with a scribbling that  encapsulates my reason to why i climb

The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination- in a word, experience. Climbing in particular, is a parodoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of playing chess with you body. If I make a mistake the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing, and possibly painful. For a brief period I am directly responsible for my actions. In that beautiful, silent, world of mountains, it seems to me worth a little risk.

A lot of people always ask me  how it all started ..when the bug bit ..how i decided on this seemingly Bohemian life truth though is that the is no formula leading to the Monde you see now  what i know for sure is that ive always had a deep yearn for adventure ,a curio to know  ,lust to challenge previously memorized limitations ive always been a proponent of  the minds capacity to protrude beyond any circumference .

growing up  though im not that old ,i took up a liking in books ,hoarding books on philosophy ,and linguistics and i think it was destined that i fall inlove with stories on man who exhibit this philosophy i lived and gave every bit of my life to ,i read stories from Tim Severin  The Brendan Voyage ,Dough Scott,Lydia Bradery to my favorite Alpinist Wanda Rutwiecks i fell in love with these stories i would devour these and get enthralled ,immersed in these for hours and weeks and would know a good read when i would take quite a while to emerge out of it ,but when i got the invite to join the first African youth to spent time on board a tall ship it was a far different story all of the sudden it was me .

It was time for me to take my own journey ,i remember a instance i still hold dear even to this day when we were aloft on the main mast the Royal and i was wearing just my harness and board shots and thinking of that teen who couldn’t swim just a year ago that for me confirmed greater things yet to be achieved and from than on i was driven to carve my own goals and chase them but at the time i was still blurry eyed and misty to what i wanted to pursue it happened that i stumbled to the mike horn young explorers camp and was chosen to take part on the camp in Switzerland and there i fell in love with the Alpine all over again and from there i knew what i wanted to do is climb mountains till the second coming .

After that i sat down ,researched ,was on a journey ,wrote proposals or what appeared to be to me and learned how to write proper ones on my way ,some mistakes take a month to emerge from especially for a naive kid from the townships with romantic ideals to scale the worlds top mountains ..even as i conceptualized this i could’ve said forget about this its not possible but something in me said it can be achieved, and it has been a roller coaster journey since then it has not been hunky dory as the high resolution pics my maybe evoke though it has been a worthwhile journey  ..But what i took out from this is really when u want something u have to really want it real bad! you find when u pursuing something that is really dear to your heart you spend a lot of your time with yourself then the the crowd  as the world we grew up in when u in Junior school we are all excited to enroll at school together and still looking forward to everything together ,at high school and College we get into all sorts of trouble together ,being rebellious  and  blurry eyed and misty we forsee a romantic future ahead of us where everything is all smooth because of our qualifications and yes the universe pukes u into real life which is less idealistic  and a lot often grow fatigue and succumb into mundane life of following the crowd and it’s a known fact that those who follow the crowd hardly emerge beyond it  .

And on the other side when u really pursuing your real passion and unplugging from the status qou  you really have to convince yourself first that you really want to do this and this is what you want and face it that fact that you happiest doing this ,than after that you will have  no problem with persecution ,ups and downs,and will approach everything with a more clear holistic bird eye view a that laughs at any hindrance at hand .When you want something you have to have understand Discipline and Sacrifice ,Look at a pregnant woman she dosnt  just eat everything ,drink everything,she compromises certain things as she want her unborn child to be born in good health and the her life takes its  choreography in complete  alignment to the goal ahead ,so applies if you working towards a goal a passion ,you need to sacrifice and be disciplined and priorities in accordance to the desired goal but to truly comprehend this you have to have something you want to pursue and you have to want it real bad and then apply muscle and all your tissue and champion it to its completion.

Hello all it has been a hella long time ,and a lot sure has been happening ,a lot that has to me cemented why i want to do this ,the has been a lot of hurdles ,up and downs ,merry go rounds,as you know i have been preparing for my next leg of my expedition my upcoming Ascent of Mount Denali highest in North America a colossal peak that stands at elevation of 20,320 feet (6,194 m) regarded by some seasonal mountaineers  as much more testing than Everest i would like to think so myself though i have no experience on both peaks i mean on Denali you carry your own stuff and drag a sled of 60kg whereas at Everest the are yaks and Sherpa carrying everything for you ,

though to me this makes no difference because my style of climbing is that of Denali/Alpine that which was pioneered by my favorite Alpinists the  likes of Reinhold Messner,Erhad Loretan ,Jean Troilet,Chantal Manduit ,the list goes on though the is a few number of climbers who climb this way nowadays because of the bombardment of the many sugarcoated commercial expeditions, this also again proves the stance that the are far more beautiful alluring  peaks than the popularized mass advertised tickers the are more technical peaks like Annapurna 1 a, K2 and other deserving mountain peaks like Cerro Torre ,Ogre,and the Many untouched peaks in the Karakorum and Latok.

,but back on the news at hand ,some goods news though besides the seeming bleekness i have now signed a contract with Performance brand First Ascent so im fully kitted for Mount Denali and my upcoming expeditions  i have also received gear from  Swindle  ,i have now booked my flights to Anchorage ive gotten my Visa and travel insurance and im on my last stages of excessing funding for the booking of expedition at the national park and other additional costs ,so that a big relief though it has been a hustle getting funding but with the help of such wonderful souls such as Clare James of South african Golf and leisure vacations ,Big issue,and mahala blog  it has eased thing and quieted the headache of mountain of logistics .

iam scheduled to leave for Alaska 3 of May the expedition i estimate will take a month on minimum but nature has her own rules .i will update soon before my departure or begining of my expedition cheers for now and if you want to be involved in raising funds for Denali and upcoming expedition please do so at

Nedbank    Pinelands

Code           104-709

Name          Rotary Club of Pinelands

                   JFE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FUND

Acc No       1005  603219

Reference   Monde Sitole – Alaska Denali Expedition

hello all hope all is well and superb on your side as is with me …what can i say life has been a roller coaster a worthwhile ride i must say though sometimes it can be seemingly tough but with perseverance and a futuristic faith one which is embodied in past explorers who wandered without the use and privileged of today’s sophisticated technology the very resilience and endurance which is evident in all my expeditions accompanied with a intent which is much greater than Ego .

A deep lure a calling surpassing all the fears we have been superimposed with by media and a conditioned society following in the words of powerful qoute that say Courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of fear but with the will to go on .

This is so relevant now because i have received alot of criticism for my Everest attempt without supplement oxygen funnily by climbers who have climbed for years but for me South Africas and climbing in general in the world is so dull ,safe and alot of pseudo Alpinist just follow repertoire and don’t reinvent and most of the guys who climb these peaks are not seasonal climbers meaning they don’t even climb on weekends beside the big mountain tickers and alot of people with me say  u gonna die which goes back to what ive been saying alot of guys who die on mountains are people who are not seasonal climbers its just people who just have one night stands with these mountains and in search of cheap fame but don’t have a personal relationship with the mountains they do not realize that its not the mountain u conquer but yourself and that u are just a small dent in the mountain .

The mountain  has produced many heroes and it remains to be the real hero not us ,we only share a bit of its glory if you  have a more humble approach to climbing which is gained by spending time on them whether big or small ,the mountain then allows u to elevate if you humble yourself ,frankly to me the first list and quest does not intrigue me  for i believe the has been people long before who have climbed these peaks like the Sherpa in Everest but with a different intent which is not driven by Ego i conclude with matter qoute by my climbing hero Anatoli boukreev that Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

On a fresh page the issue of the I magazine City press lifestyle Magazine  came out 23October 2011 and i was on the cover it came out in  large format alongside fellow extreme athletes Hanli Prinsloo and David Grier ,and another feature is one the November issue of Bona page 78 and on the upcoming issue of SAmen online magazine ,and on January Menshealth issue and last but not least please follow me on  https://twitter.com/#!/MondeWalks and join fan page on Facebook .

hello all, hope u all well ,good and keeping safe in your adventures ,i have now almost fully internalised the whole elbrus expedition ,it was an exciting expedition one which gave me even more certainty and re assurance in my alpine growth though i was droped by a gear sponsor a day before i left for the expedition i continued because that was really the mindset of the whole expedition to surpass  the attitude of Gagon when he says ” S’accomplir, c’est se dépasser   “that is the whole mantra and the intent behind the whole expedition to surpass beyond the circumfrence ,anyways i wrote to you now to update you on a few new exciting developments firstly land for the building of the indoor rockclimbing wall has been found ,to remind you about the organisation i have opened by name Great African Ascents here is the information as follows_

2009 January i opened a NGO by the name Great African Ascents focused on
nature conservation and youth development through mountaineering .

The organization was opened
with the intentions to provide an alternative to youth bombarded with the sometime unfortunate
burden of living in the townships where youth can loose the capacity to dream because of life
shewed with poverty and sometimes disappointments .

Practically what the organization started
doing is doing camps every Friday to Sunday instead of bombarding youth with statistics about
global warming we believe in giving them an tangible experience so the will appreciate nature
unpretentiously not because they were forced .

in future we plan to open and indoor rock climbing
wall in Khayelitsha and do consistent camps across south Africa and ultimately across Africa so
as to expand the horizons of young people simultaneously altering a open minded and healthy
mind that will benefit in the building of a positive society .

the construction of the indoor
rockclimbing wall and wellness centre will be very exciting for the organisation ,programmes we
hope to have will be martial arts,introduce circus by the help of zip zap circus ,also maybe even
have a indoor swimming pool if possible but the wall remains the most critical alongside the other
rooms where we can carry out programmes such as drama classes and dance classes so as to provide
a variety for the youngsters.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/Cat.Apparel.South.Africa