Jonathan Siegrist on the Difficulty of Grading and Climbing for the Challenge
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Jonathan Siegrist isn’t just one of America’s best and most prolific sport climbers, having climbed over 25 5.15’s. He’s also someone who thinks de...
21 Feb 20241h 13min
Seb Bouin on Akira, Grading DNA, and French Climbing History
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Seb Bouin is one of only three climbers who have climbed 5.15d (9c). Following in the footsteps of leading French climbers, he established his test...
19 Feb 202443min
Fred Rouhling, Akira, and the Biggest Climbing Controversy of the 1990s
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Fred Rouhling was a good climber, but 5.15b? At a time when 14d was the hardest grade, Fred suggested that his half boulder/half route hybrid, Akir...
12 Feb 202449min
BONUS: Nina Caprez on Attempting to Climb The Nose with Lynn Hill
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Nina Caprez is a weapon. Known as the ‘Swiss Machine’, and easily one of the most accomplished big wall free climbers on the planet, she had her ey...
7 Feb 20249min
Lauren DeLaunay Miller on Lynn Hill and The History of Women Climbing in Yosemite
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Lauren DeLaunay Miller is a climber, former YOSAR member, and award winning author of Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite...
5 Feb 202459min
Chelsea Griffie on Leading the Way and Being the First Black Woman to Climb El Cap
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! In 2001, Chelsea Griffie topped out on Lurking Fear on the far left side of El Capitan and became the first black woman to climb the world famous f...
31 Jan 202433min
Bobbi Bensman on Lynn Hill and 1990s Competition Climbing
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Bobbi Bensman was one of the most dominant competition climbers of the 1990s, winning the Phoenix Bouldering Contest 13 years in a row and 20 Natio...
29 Jan 202436min
Lynn Hill Proves It Goes
Check out our new book, Written In Stone: The 1990s! Lynn Hill was looking for a different kind of progression. By the mid-1990’s climbing grades had skyrocketed, and Lynn was climbing harder and hard...
22 Jan 202439min
