The commute from base-camp on the ridge is over: the team commits to the wall. Life in the vertical world is based out of two hanging portaledges. Kevin and Conrad push the line higher into virgin terrain as Alex, Mark & Jimmy drop below to free climb pitches previously aid climbed. Alex shows how free […]
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Peter Mortimer and Josh Lowell, co-founders of the Reel Rock Tour head to the High Sierras to film Peter Croft and Lisa Rands attempt a wild free ascent on the Incredible Hulk Wall — arguably America’s best (and least filmed) alpine rock wall. Croft, the most legendary of California’s crack masters mentors the renowned boulderer […]
The team made it up 6000ft vertical through six ecologic zones to base camp on a high ridge of Mt. Kinabalu. Although flat sleeping spots are non-exsistant and there is only a small pool of collected rain water, it is one the most awe inspiring, above the clouds camps we have ever experienced. We also […]
Wild rumors of big walls bring Alex Honnold, Conrad Anker, Mark Synnot, Jimmy Chin, and Kevin Thaw to Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo for some epic first ascents.
2000 ft. of climbing. 2 hours and 50 minutes. No rope. No harness. Or any sort of safety gear. Alone on the wall – Alex Honnold free-solos the Regular NW face of Half-Dome.