Possible Clues:

• Climber from Iowa with name in Californian city
• Tropical creeper
• Feminine name that's also a tropical jungle vine
• Something that protects quick ascending climber
• Climber putting back a spike
• Climber has trouble around Namibia's borders
• A woody climbing plant, especially in a tropical rain forest
• A device for fastening back climbing plant
• Trailer of 'Blair Annual' regularly seen
• Rain forest climber