John Black achieved his Springbok Award in Jan 1998. John’s love for the outdoors, hiking and climbing started as a young Scout at 1st Discovery Scout Group.
John Simmitted Mt Everest on 21st May 2009.
In 2018, he completed the Seven Summits – the highest mountain on each continent”.
John Black is a Springbok Scout from 1st Discovery. Recently summitted K2, part of the first South African team to do so.
The sky is the limit. John Black and Warren Eva returned home as the first South Africans to summitted the K2 in the Karakoram mountain range – the second highest peak in the world at 8 611 metres above sea level.
They started the trek to The Savage Mountain’s summit early on Saturday morning, June 18 2022. They reached the summit on Friday, July 22 and finally were back on South African soil on Wednesday, August 3. “We spent roughly six weeks on the mountain,” said Black.