Chris Sharma

Chris Sharma is an American climber from the generation that pushed sport climbing and bouldering into new territory; he is widely recognized for carrying the mantle of the world’s strongest sport climber after his breakthrough ascent of Realization/Biographie. The five films here trace that range: from young-roadside bouldering to large-scale sport projects and the sea-cliff solos that became part of his signature.

The early footage in Rampage records an eighteen-year-old Sharma on a bouldering road trip with Obe Carrion, framed as a scene-in-the-making. Expect raw desert light, crashpads and the informal lines people were establishing at the time; the piece is useful for seeing the beginnings of a bouldering revolution and Sharma’s movement style before he became widely known. Best Of The West returns to Hueco Tanks and shows how he re-engaged with a place important to his development, offering side-by-side sequences of top-end bouldering and peer interaction from the mid-2000s.

On the sport side, La Dura Complete: The Hardest Rock Climb in the World captures the arc of a project at Oliana, including Sharma’s partnership and friendly rivalry with Adam Ondra while working an exceptionally hard route; the film gives a clear sense of project process, route reading, and the psychology of sharing a line. Finally, the Mallorcan shorts Es Pontàs: The First Ascent and Black Pearl document Sharma’s deep‑water soloing — prolonged dynos, repeated falls into the sea, and the endurance required to string together moves without ropes. Together these films show a climber who moved fluidly between bouldering, big sport projects and psicobloc, and they provide both historical record and practical views of technique across those disciplines.