Climbing
These are the climbing videos that'll always keep you gripped
World-first routes, mind-blowing speed and even ice climbing Niagara Falls – if you don't love climbing after watching these videos, go see your doctor.
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Reel Rock
19 min
First ascent/last ascent part 1
Hazel Findlay and Maddie Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia to search out unclimbed lines.
If you want your climbing clips brilliant and bountiful then you need to check out Reel Rock. Across six seasons and 45 episodes, this series of short films has been covering the best climbing stories around. From Leo Houlding's unaided expedition take on Antarctica's Mount Spectre to profiling Janja Garnbret's perfect season and the unstoppable rise of bouldering, once you start on the Reel Rock series you won’t be able to stop.
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Marcin Dzieński versus the elevator
4 min
Watch Marcin Dzieński's epic speed-climbing race against an elevator
See Marcin Dzieński's climbing race against an elevator.
Speed climbers are fast... obviously. Just how fast can a world class speed climber scale a wall, though? You'll see exactly how fast when Polish former world champ Marcin Dzieński races an elevator up a 23m, six-storey wall at Poland's Olympic Centre in Warsaw. Can he beat hi-tech engineering in a race to the top? Hit play on the video above and find out.
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Sasha DiGiulian's Canadian big wall trilogy
5 min
Sasha DiGiulian's Canadian trilogy
Stripped of music and slow-motion, Sasha DiGiulian makes her way up three of Canada's most gnarly routes.
One of the truest clips of the climbing experience you'll ever see, follow Sasha DiGiulian on an epic journey to climb her Canadian Rockies trilogy.
Stripped of music and slow-motion, DiGiulian makes her way up three of Canada's most gnarly routes accompanied only by the whistle of wind, the jangle of carabiners and vertigo-inducing views from high up on some of the toughest walls the Canadian Rockies have to offer. This is real climbing.
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Blood on the Crack
Climbing and pain go hand-in-hand and nowhere is that more evident that in Blood on the Crack, in which climbers Kevin Jorgeson and Jacob Cook take on one of the most excruciating crack climbs in the world.
Jorgeson and Cook head to the Bugaboos in British Columbia, Canada, to attempt the second ascent of the Tom Egan Memorial Route. It contains one of the hardest, most excruciating crack climbs in the world, renowned for reducing fingertips to shreds. You'll be wincing as you watch it.
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Chris Sharma takes on El Bon Combat
4 min
Chris Sharma sends El Bon Combat
Chris Sharma makes one of the world's hardest climbs.
Climbing legend Chris Sharma has some gnarly climbs to his name, but this one put up a fight. El Bon Combat, outside of Barcelona, Spain, is rated 9A, making it one of the toughest climbs in the world, period, but Sharma made the first ascent – with a hell of a lot of effort. This is climbing at it's highest level.
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Felipe Camargo fights the good fight
15 min
The good fight: Felipe Camargo
Felipe Camargo is determined to be the first South American climber to make a 9B climb.
Very few climbers in the world can say they've made a 9B climb – less than 20 in fact – and not single one of those hailed from South America until Brazilian Felipe Camargo decided to change that on the infamous El Bon Combat route made famous by Chris Sharma above. Take a fascinating look behind the scenes at what it takes to climb one of the world's toughest routes and join an elite group of climbers.
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Jumplines
10 min
Jumplines
Kilian Fischhuber and Jakob Kronberger search for climbing routes that can only be managed with a big jump.
In indoor climbing, there's nothing quite the theatrical wow factor of an athlete competing a dyno move. The dyno typically consists of a short, sharp leap towards a handhold, powered by the leg muscles. It's a move that has always fascinated outdoor climbing legend Kilian Fischhuber for the way a climber seemingly defies gravity as they sail upwards or sideways across a wall.
In Jumplines, Fischhuber and Jakob Kronberger set out to find outdoor climbs in Austria with natural jumping lines, as they look to mimic the dyno move in an outdoor setting.
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Frozen Falls
What's more to say than Will Gadd taking ice climbing to new heights as the first person to ascend the iconic Niagara Falls.
Gadd, of course, waited until the depths of winter to climb Niagara, choosing the most optimum spot to do the climb – basically, where the water had frozen enough for climbable ice to form. One of the biggest challenges for Gadd was avoiding getting wet: "I was so close to the water, I could reach out and stick my ice tool in the Niagara Falls. At one point I was behind the water, climbing on ice that froze behind the falls. I got a whole lot of Niagara down my neck!"
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Stefan Glowacz redefines caving in Oman
6 min
Into the Light: Discovering Majlis al Jinn
Chris Sharma dive into the depths of Majlis al Jinn – and come out again.
Part of the draw of climbing is the adventure and routes don't get much more adventurous than climbing out from one of the world's biggest cave chambers in Oman.
This project from veterans Stefan Glowacz and Chris Sharma was an epic years in the making and almost had a nasty sting in the tail – watch the video to see why.
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Janja Garnbret's perfect season
20 min
The perfect season part 1
Janja Garnbret has been dominating the climbing competition scene. Can she complete the perfect season?
In 2020, Slovenian sport climber Janja Garnbret won all six World Cup events in bouldering to complete the first season sweep in IFSC history. Then, in 2021 she claimed her sport’s first gold medal at the Olympics. The dramatic twists and turns of Garnbret's career to date is told in The Perfect Season, an episode of the popular Reel Rock series split in two parts, part 1 and part 2. The episodes explore what makes such an elite level athlete tick and what it took to make history in the high-intensity world of World Cup climbing
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10am on a Tuesday
9 min
Climbing in Cuba
Sasha DiGiulian takes the first female ascent of the 5.14 'One Inch Punch', in Cuba.
You've already seen Sasha DiGiulian conquering a trilogy of Canadian climbs above, but what does the day-to-day life of a breakout climbing star actually look like? Dig into any episode of her show 10am on a Tuesday to find out, where you'll see Sasha traveling the world in search of the best climbing spots, working with advocacy groups and even lobbying in Washington on behalf of public lands.
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No Days Off
18 min
Makatea, French Polynesia
Sasha visits French Polynesia to raise awareness about environmental challenges facing the island community.
As we saw in her 10am on a Tuesday show, Sasha DiGiulian feels she has a responsibility to take stances on issues that affect the planet. In her episodes from No Days Off we see her take this further, spotlighting issues such as environment, conservation, eco-tourism and sustainability in the places she visits or ventures to climb.
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