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From tropical Atlantic beaches to rivers and the Sub-Saharan desert that stretches towards the border of Namibia, Angola showcases a variety of terrains and climbing opportunities. The area is culturally rich with ancient rock paintings and local history, where locals and village leaders climbed these surrounding rocks for ritualistic and coming of age ceremonies.
It is home to many initiatives that seek to develop climbing and sustainable tourism while uplifting local communities with clean water and electricity. World famous climber, Alex Honnold, spent time in 2015 raising awareness and implementing the support for the solar intitiative with the Honnold Foundation as well as opening trad, sport and free solo routes.
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Seasons
Since Angola is situated along the Atlantic ocean much of the climate is determined by the sea surface temperatures and cold Benguela current.The climate can be split into four major zones: dry and semi-desert lowlands reaching toward the Namibian border rising up into escarpments, dry savanna regions to the east/southeast and the countrys forest regions in the North.
The rainy season lasts from October-May with coinciding humidity and heat. The total rainfall decreases from north to south and east to west making the northeastern parts of Angola the wettest. These rainy seasons are the hottest reaching average temperatures of 22-23°C. The dry season occurs from June-September with average temperatures reaching 18-20°C.
Angolan Climbing
Climb Angola is a non-profit company that is working towards developing climbing in Angola and forming a climbing community. There website (www.climbangola.com) shows the projects. One of these projects involves the development of an indoor climbing gym in Luanda. In addition to this indoor gym project, Climb Angola aims to develop more climbing routes within the country as the rock is fairly underdeveloped. There is a mixture of quartzite sandstone along the southern plateau cliff face, limestone on the coastal crags, and granite by the northern inland parts of Angola.
Angola has multiple climbing destinations with Serra da Leba and Conda being the most developed. The climbing mainly consists of sports and traditional climbing though there is potential for bouldering. Pedras Negras is also fairly developed, situated east of Luanda. Driving can take 5 hours on a 325km road from Luanda to Pedras Negras. The rock consists of conglomerate sandstone towers with forests below. Conda has valleys with 365m tall granite domes. If driving from Luanda, it takes 6 hours to drive 400 km south of Luanda. Serra da Leba consists of solid sandstone cliff edge walls. Serra da Leba is a 14 hour drive from Luanda, along a 934km road. There are domestic flights between Luanda and Lubango. Lubango is Angola's second largest city which is situated east of Serra da Leba.
Transport
Luanda, north of the Angolan coast line, is the capital city of Angola. There are planes departing and landing daily to and from Luanda to Europe, Brazil, and South Africa.
Humpata Plateau
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