Climbing in Angola

The single film here frames climbing inside a wider, curious travel documentary. Alex Honnold Climbs Angola follows Alex Honnold into rock that had seen little filming, pairing big-wall objectives with a local project to clear land mines and with encounters in unfamiliar communities. The crew uses drone work to show terrain that is seldom documented from the air, and the narrative gives as much room to the human and social elements as to the climbing.

Shot by VICE Sports with cinematography that emphasizes place, the film is notable for its mixture of unclimbed-looking walls and on-the-ground storytelling: it avoids a pure-summit arc and instead explores how an expedition can intersect with a country’s recovery and local actors. Expect documentary pacing, travel detail, and big-rock sequences threaded through a broader social context.