Rock Climbing in South Africa

Southern Africa offers excellent warm weather climbing opportunities. There is no shortage of climbs across all climbing disciplines, save ice-climbing. The country boasts some of the world's finest bouldering, thousands of sport routes of all difficulties and traditional climbing from short home crags to massive overhanging multi-day rock walls. There are a fair number of websites which provide information on rock-climbing and rock-climbing trips in Southern Africa. The following links represent a starting point. A good strategy for foreigners wishing to rock climb in South Africa would be to make contact with South African climbers (including James and Marianne), using the contact details on the websites below.

• www.saclimb.co.za - The SA Climbing Info Network - News and information on climbing, the climbing community and climbing related events in South Africa, including information on places to climb and route guides.
• www.climb.co.za - Information on rock-climbing in South Africa - Route and area information, guides, gear review, directories, climbing news, tech tips, photos. See especially the "Climb ZA Wiki" section.
• www.mcsa.org.za - Mountain Club of SA site - Information on the Mountain Club of South Africa.
• www.rocrope.com - Roc n Rope home page, Waterval Boven - Information of rock-climbing and related activities at Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
• www.alardsbigwallclimbing.com - Alard Hufner's climbing page - information on big wall climbing in Southern Africa and other stuff Alard has done.
• www.noneedforparking.com/satrango - The 2005 SA Trango Trip - the website for Marianne and James's 2005 trip to the Trango Towers with Peter Lazarus and Andreas Keifer

Flying in South Africa

South Africa has a strong flying fraternity. Flying in South Africa is easily accessible and relatively cheap. The weather is generally excellent and the scenery is often breathtaking. Some places to start investigating flight in South Africa include

• www.aeroclub.org.za - The Aero Club of South Africa is a composite body constituting all sectors of sport, recreational and private aviators. It is the combined force of all its sections, from power flight to gliding, ballooning to modeling.
• www.misasa.flyeaaforum.com - Microlight and Light Sport Aircraft Association of South Africa
• www.microlighters.co.za - Microlight Forum
• www.trike-expeditions.com - Trike-Expeditions.com is a site dedicated to the flying adventures of Mike Blyth and Olivier Aubert. Having broken aviation world records for their South to South and Cape to Cape trike flying expeditions, they continue their microlight / ultralight adventure flying. They fly the Aerotrike Cobra and the DTA Voyageur.
• www.aerotrike.co.za - Rainbow Aircraft are manufacturers of the Aerotrike trike type microlight ultralight aircraft. This aircraft has won numerous awards for achievements including the Millennium Microlight Adventure.
• www.southafrica-travel.net/miscellaneous/southafrica_flying.html - Light Aircraft Flying and Aircraft Rental at the Cape of South Africa